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of eight cows will average nearly sixteen quarts of milk a 

 day each, — you see it would not take many such cows to 

 run a whole creamery. But if you take an ordinary cow, 

 that averages seven or eight quarts a day the year round, it 

 would take about two hundred cows of that sort to make 

 it an object to use a machine as large as mine. I think we 

 shall centralize about this machine. This will be a pivot about 

 which a good many farmers will be able to swing, and swing 

 to their advantage. A dozen or half a dozen large farmers, 

 uniting, and buying this machine, and supplying the milk, 

 I think will be able to reduce the thing to the finest point, 

 and produce the best results. That is my impression only, 

 having used the machine but a few months. I consider 

 myself a novice to-day in the use of the centrifugal ma- 

 chine ; although I am as familiar with it and its workings, 

 probably, as any one in this country. I think we are all, I 

 know I am, too apt to jump at conclusions. We think we 

 have got splendid results ; we tell our neighbors ; the story is 

 published ; and by and by time tells us that we are wrong. 

 I would not give any thing for one experiment. I consider 

 six experiments little enough : I would a good deal rather 

 have twenty. Chemists are never satisfied with one analy- 

 sis. That is the great trouble with us farmers : we are not 

 careful enough in our statements. If I should live to be as 

 old as many of you are here, and should ever have the good 

 luck to drop into Greenfield, I don't want to be obliged to 

 take back any thing I have said this afternoon. For that 

 reason, I hope you will consider these statements as merely 

 opinions of mine. I don't mean to state these things as 

 facts ; but such are my opinions. 



Mr. Bond (of Northborough). Mr. Burnett has referred 

 to the sediment which is found upon the machine, and stated 

 that I had had some examination made of it. I carried to 

 Dr. Cutter of Boston, who is an expert microscopist, some 

 of the cream from that centrifugal machine, some of the 

 skim-milk, and some of this deposit, and he examined them 

 all, and reported that the cream and skim-milk were remarka- 

 bly free from spores (these spores being what cause milk 

 and cream readily to sour), and that this deposit was re- 

 markably full of them. He concluded from that that we 

 had discovered a very valuable process, not only of separat- 



