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one may feel fairly certain that the milk will have a lease of life 

 almost as great as that of a ton of coal during a cold wave. 



Congressman Adams at the Burlington meeting, discussing 

 pure food legislation, denounced doped milk. It is one of the 

 dangers of the market milk trade, one of its great temptations. 

 What is science's latest say-so as to embalming processes ? 



Dr. Wiley of the U. S. Department of Agriculture has con- 

 tributed the first piece of positive information we have had on 

 this subject. Claims and counter claims have been made as to 

 the harmlessness or harmfulness of chemical preservatives. He, 

 however, is in a fair way to settle the matter by direct experi- 

 mentation with his "poison squad," a lot of young men of vigor- 

 ous health to whom under careful restrictions and constant medi- 

 cal supervision the borax compounds, common preservatives, have 

 been fed. Without going into details it may be remarked that it 

 has now been amply proven that considerable quantities of borax 

 or boracic acid are inimical to digestion and to health ; that minor 

 quantities are more or less, or at times perhaps, not injurious to 

 healthy adults. These preservatives are undoubtedly less dan- 

 gerous than the ptomains which may form if the materials remain 

 unpreserved, yet they do not form when care and cold are used. 

 Science has put its seal of disapproval on the use of preservatives 

 unless the existence thereof is advertised on the container of 

 the goods. 



I have taxed your ^patience for a long time this morning ; 

 yet I have only outlined a few of the many contributions of re- 

 search of dairying. If you would know more of them, would 

 study any phase of the subject, ask and I will gladly direct you 

 to literature if I am acquainted with it. 



Now with what exhibition of oratory and rhetoric shall I 

 close? A preacher having talked long and prosily to a lot of 

 children finally said : "Now, little folks, what more can I say 

 for you and do for you?" A little lad in the front row piped 

 up "Say amen and sit down." Amen means "so be it;" and so 

 most heartily to everything scientific and practicable that makes 

 for dairy advancement say I "Amen" — and sit down. 



Mr. C. F. Smith : — I would like to ask you how that milk 

 pail differs from the Curler milk pail. 



A. The Curler milk pail is completely covered. It has a 

 strainer of fine wire mesh under which are fitted layers of ab- 

 sorbent cotton. The pail I am speaking of is open, has no ab- 

 sorbent cotton and no wire mesh, but simply a tin shoulder or 

 hood covering over three-fourths of the pail and shielding it 

 from the rain of dirt from above. 



Q. Is the hole you milk through about the same size as in 

 the Curler pail? 



