24 VERMONT DAIRYMEN'S REPORT. 



for thirty years and take premiums, and use granulated sugar in 

 butter. I think the butter is better every way for it. 



Member. I have made butter for many years and have 

 used a little wlrite sugar. To twenty or thirty pounds I put in 

 a teaspoon ful. 



Secretary Pierce. Don't you call that adulterated butter? 



Mr. Tinkham. I know a most successful dairymen who 

 puts in a little sugar in making butter. Now just a word 

 about dairy butter. I think it depends a great deal on 

 the circumstances about dairy butter. The farmer can make a 

 better article than the creamery, for the reason that the 

 farmer has every condition under his control. The creamery 

 man has got to take it as it comes. 



Member. Is butter made in a private dairy by the separa- 

 tor, creamery butter ? 



Answer — I have had that question asked many times and 

 taken some pains to get a solution. If a dairyman makes his 

 own butter it is dairy butter whether he makes it by the separ- 

 ator or another way. If he unites with the milk or cream from 

 his own herd that made by other cows, the place thereupon be- 

 comes a creamery. If he makes his butter in his own home, 

 that is dairy butter. 



G. W. Humphrey. I have a dairy of twenty cows and 

 have made my own butter for forty years. I never made any 

 butter in my life but that I put in sugar, and I have taken 

 premiums. 



Mr. Kneeland. Cannot we separate in the barn and make 

 as nice butter as though we separated in the dairy-room at the 

 house ? 



Mr. Smith. I will add my testimony with relation to sweet- 

 ening butter with sugar. My father,years ago when I was a boy, 

 always put in a little granulated sugar. I did so. But I once 

 sent some butter to a different party and he suspected that I 

 had put in some sugar. It didn't all work out. He wrote — 

 "Please don't put any more sugar in your butter." In my 

 judgment if the butter is as perfect as it should be, it cannot be 

 improved by putting in sugar. The addition of sugar may cover 

 up something. Speaking of having the separator in the barn. 

 Eight years ago we bought a separator and made a small room 

 at the end of the stable and put the separator in there. It saves 

 carrying the milk to the house, and I don't believe it affects the 

 butter in the least. 



Member. It seems that the fact of the cream being in the 

 same atmosphere the cows breathe must affect the quality of 

 the butter. The air ought to be perfectly pure, and letting 

 that stream of cream run through an impure atmosphere must 

 affect the quality of the cream. It seems to me that it might be 



