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ing the cream from the milk, but of cleansing the whole 

 thing. 



A question was asked Mr. Burnett about the keeping of 

 the cream ; and he replied, as he has told me several times, 

 that he did not think the cream that came from that ma- 

 chine would keep sweet quite so long as cream raised from 

 the deep pails. I suggested to him to experiment by taking 

 the cream directly from the machine, and closing it air- 

 tight, because the cream and the milk, although they may 

 be entirely free from these spores, will contract them from 

 the air, more or less. I don't know whether he has tried 

 that experiment or not. 



Mr. Burnett. Yes, sir. My bottles stand on the same 

 tables which hold the vessels which receive the cream. It is 

 bottled and corked up immediately. 



Mr. Bond. Suppose that to be the fact, that the cream 

 does »ot keep quite so well, which would seem to be the 

 case, it is probably owing to its being thrown from the ma- 

 chine, and the globules being broken up. That prepares it 

 for churning, makes it, probably, better for making butter, 

 but not so good for keeping. You want a machine for 

 taking the cream off and keeping it. I am very well satis- 

 fied that a machine can be so well constructed, with a com- 

 bination of the improvements which I have made, that you 

 will be able to take the cream from the machine without 

 breaking up the globules. The experiment has been but par- 

 tially tried, not fully; but I have had the cream examined 

 by a competent person, and his report is, that the globules 

 are somewhat broken up, but not much, and that they 

 strongly conglomerate, like bunches of grapes. That is 

 some little modification from what was perceived in the 

 cream as thrown off while the machine was in motion. 

 Now, I have a modification in my mind of that process by 

 which I think I shall be able to obviate the breaking-up of 

 the globules. If I succeed in doing that, the cream will be 

 in the same condition, except that it will be sweeter, as the 

 cream raised in deep pails. 



Dr. Wakefield. I know that Dr. Ephraim Cutter has 

 examined this matter very thoroughly in looking after these 

 spores. We should suppose, that, if the spores were expelled 

 from the cream, it would keep longer. I suppose, from Mr. 



