No. 6. DEPARTMENT OP AGRICULTURE. 729 



and get these things going. There is a recognition of educational 

 work to-day that is very gratifying and which is so just in pro- 

 portion as that educational work bears dollars and cents in return. 

 It is useful to the commercial man; it is a help to me if you will 

 come up and see what we are doing at the State College. Anything 

 we can do to serve the State which created the institution and 

 supports it, I shall be glad to do my part in helping. I hope I may 

 have the pleasure of seeing you all up there and showing you what 

 we are doing. 



MR. STOVER: Shall we put the milk into a hot vessel after 

 sterilizing? 



PROF. VAX NORMAN: Yes. Scald it instead of wiping. Scald 

 it and turn bottom side up on the shelf until you get around, and 

 then when the customer goes out to the street, if that is the way 

 you require them to do, have the vessel carried bottom side up, so 

 the dust will not settle in it. Dust is the airship on which these 

 germs of fermentation and putrefaction ride around. 



MR. CAMPBELL: Would you think that a milkman that ped- 

 dled loose milk, or a housewife that bought his milk was an ideal 

 milkman or an ideal housewife? 



PROF. VAN NORMAN: It may not be the ideal way. It will be 

 the way that will be used for a long while in a great many places. 



GOV. HOARD: How many milkmen ever know or take any 

 pains by special effort to educate a family how to take care of milk? 



PROF. VAN NORMAN: I know of only two or three. The num- 

 ber is small, but the success of these two or three makes me sug- 

 gest it. 



MR. MARTIN: Wouldn't it be better to keep the temperature 

 down below 40? 



PROF. VAN NORMAN : Yes. 



GOV. HOARD: At a certain place we had 1,500 families in a city 

 we supplied with butter in the winter. The butter was specially 

 delivered to them. It was our experience that we had to make a 

 special missionary effort to teach the average housewife how to 

 care for that butter, in order to save our reputation. May it not be 

 the same also in regard to milk? The average hired girl and the 

 average refrigerator are not always the most savory propositions 

 of the household. 



MR. BARCLAY: Now, this sermon we have just listened to by 

 the Professor is the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the 

 truth. When he tells you that cleanliness and that cold are the 

 means of caring for milk, he told you, in my judgment, the whole 

 truth. 



GOV. HOARD: Is there any cowy odor in the milk, unless there 

 is manure introduced into the milk? 



PROF. VAN NORMAN: This much we do know, the new milk 

 aroma is a little different from what it is any other time. 

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