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grade cream, dock him accordingly. That is the scheme now in 

 vogue in some creameries. 



Q. Your statement is theoretically correct; but what are 

 we to do with two or three creameries in close competition and 

 the patron saying, "if you don't take my cream the other man 

 will ?" 



A. A hard proposition. Creamery men ought to form a 

 get-together club and stand by each other; but they don't, and [ 

 fear they never will. We have far too many creameries in Ver- 

 mont. 



Q. Is a patron bringing 30 per cent, cream entitled to a 

 larger surplus than one who brings 20 per cent.? 



A. Yes. He who brings the richer cream theoretically 

 should be allotted a little more surplus than he who brings thin 

 cream. The difference, however, is but slight, too slight to be 

 worth fussing about. 



Q. Is the chemist's gravimetric skim milk test absolutely 

 correct ? 



A. It is more nearly correct than any other test. It always 

 runs high of the Babcock. I believe that I have never seen one 

 showing less than 0.07 per cent, fat and I have made many hun- 

 dreds. The Babcock test of skim milk understates the fat con- 

 tent, decidedly if carelessly made, slightly even if made with the 

 utmost care by a competent operator with good apparatus proper- 

 ly run. This statement is not true, however, of whole milk 

 analysis. The Babcock tells the truth with whole unity if it is 

 given a chance to do so. 



President Bruce : — The hour for adjournment has arrived. 

 Meeting adjourned. 



Thursday, P. M., January 12, 1905. 



President Bruce : — It is necessary that we come to order now 

 and proceed with the business. Mr. Towle of Franklin has the 

 permission of the officers of the Association to present a resolu- 

 tion. 



The following resolutions were then presented by Mr. Towle : 



TESTIMONIAI, OF RE;GARD. 



Whereas, there is still living at his home in Georgia at an ad- 

 vanced age, Mr. Orvil S. Bliss, the originator and founder of 

 the State Dairymen's Association, which has since been in most 

 successful operation for thirty-five years, and, whereas, he was 

 the secretary of this Association for a long term of years and 

 labored earnestly, diligently and unremittingly for its welfare 

 and success before any regular state appropriation was made for 

 its maintenance, and succeeded in carrying it forward agains: 



