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keeps her milk in the bag, the poorer it is. Miss milking one day and 

 you will find the milk deteriorates in quality. 



Mr. Graves — I am glad to be backed up by Mr. Patterson. 



Mr. Gurler — Before the introduction of the Babcock test there 

 were dairymen bringing milk to us and we had one dairyman whose 

 night's milk had such a low test that we w^ere sure he was watering that 

 milk — it showed so little cream. I said to the men : "Let us be sure be- 

 fore we accuse this man without knowing he is guilty." I sent men 

 out there to spy on him and we found that the milk was not watered, 

 but that he milked his cows at four o'clock in the morning and eight 

 o'clock at night, so that there were sixteen hours between morning and 

 night's milking and eight hours between night and morning's. His morn- 

 ing's milk was all right but his night's milk was all wrong. The longer 

 you wait between milkings, the less your per cent of butterfat. 



Mr. Graves — Doubtless a great many of you are shipping milk to 

 the creameries and perhaps possibly question the accuracy of their tests, 

 and sometimes suspect they are possibly giving you the worst of it. A 

 study of this butterfat sheet will take it home to you in a way that you 

 cannot get around it. 



One instance I recall from memory. One cow's milk tested 2.8 

 at one time and 6.8 at another time. Sometimes there is a greater varia- 

 tion than that. 



]\Ir. Marple — Would a m'an in his morning's milk make up what 

 he lost at night in butterfat? 



Mr. Gurler — I cannot answer that question. 



yir. Graves — We found that we lost it. 



Mr. Marple — That is an important question. It emphasizes the 

 importance of milking regularly and not waiting too long a period be- 

 tween milkings. 



Mr. Mallory — I ship cream and it has to be to the point. We had 

 trouble along that line because we were too busy Sunday morning, did 

 not get up quite so early and that was where our trouble came in. We 

 finally got on to the fact that we lost that butterfat and never got it 

 back. 



REPORTS FROM MISSOURI DAIRYMEN. 



[A number of reports from individual dairymen were read at the meeting but for 

 lack of space we cannot print tliese reports in full. However, we glean from the reports 

 the following excerpts containing a great deal of valua:ble information.] 



REPORT OF S W. COLEMAN, SEDALIA, MO. 



"Our place of ten acres is all in blue grass and it furnishes grass 

 enough to graze thirteen head of cows and heifers, also about forty-five 



