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how carefully the cans are cleaned, if you let milk stand in 

 them for three hours, and then turn it out, you will find the 

 smell of the can very offensive. If you let your milk stand 

 in glass for three days, you will find nothing of the sort. 

 For that reason I have adopted glass. It is being introduced 

 in New York very extensively, — much more extensively than 

 in Boston. A gentleman who was here to-day told me that 

 it is jumping into favor here. In Paris, there is one firm 

 that is supplying something like twelve or fifteen thousand 

 quarts a day to families, in little porcelain jars with stopples 

 to them. 



Question. What price do you get for your butter ? 



Mr. Burnett. I get forty-five cents a pound from my 

 large hotel trade, and I get fifty and fifty-five cents from 

 my retail trade. 



Question. What glass bottles do you use ? 



Mr. Burnett. Mason's improved glass jar. Some have 

 a glass cap and some a porcelain-lined metallic cap. Within 

 the last ten days, I have had shipped from Philadelphia ten 

 cases of the Glancy glass bottle, with glass screw-caps. 

 They were offered on very favorable terms, and I bought 

 them. I have kept lump butter in my refrigerator, by acci- 

 dent, six weeks, and I have put up butter for some gentle- 

 men who are interested in this matter, and wanted to know 

 about the keeping quality of the butter. Although the 

 machine has been running only a few months, I am about 

 convinced (I will not say certain, because I cannot judge of 

 of this thing in so short a time), — I am about convinced that 

 the keeping quality of butter made by this process is above 

 the average. It is excellent. I think we shall find that this 

 green scum that is thrown out of the milk is what injures a 

 great deal of milk, cream, and butter ; and by this machine 

 we get rid of it. 



Question. In your opinion how large a dairy is it neces- 

 sary for a man to have to make it profitable for him to get 

 the machine and the necessary power to run it ? 



Mr. Burnett. If you will tell me how many quarts of 

 milk your cows give up in this region, I can answer that 

 question. If you have herds that will average fifteen quarts 

 of milk a day the year round, — we have a dairyman in 

 Southborough who has published the statement that his dairy 



