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Mr, Haecker — That is one reason why I do not feed the calves at 

 noon, because I would have to feed milk that had been standing around 

 for six hours. 



Mr, Miller — Applying the same rule to milk fed to calves as to in- 

 fants, the milk that we get from any separator and use right then is 

 better than if it had stood a little while, the older it gets, the less vitality 

 there is in it, 



Mr, Gurler — You skim your milk and feed it warm to your calves. 

 You just try that yourself sometime. Be blind-folded and let some of 

 your family give you a glass of tlie warm separator milk and the warm 

 new milk and see if you can tell which is which. 



Mr, Is there any difference in the vitality of milk in six 



hours ? 



Mr, Gurler — I cannot prove that there is, it is a hard thing to prove, 

 but I have stated it as a belief of mine and I find there are many people 

 coming to believe as I do. 



Mr, Phipps — Is there any competition among your customers because 

 of the morning's or evening's milk ? 



Mr, Gurler — We keep them separate. The evening's milk is sold by 

 the pint, the morning's milk by the quart and customers can take their 

 choice. Now in the stable I think these are important points. 



Ventilation is an important point. — This idea of sealing a cow's 



stable and giving her so many cubic feet with no change of air, it is time 



to explode. Put in a system of ventilation that will give your cows a 



change of air and they will be all right. The King system of ventilation 



is the best I know of. You want your cow stable as light as your dwelling 



house. For King s system of ventilation, write the Wisconsin Agricul- 

 tural College or Hoard's Dairyman. 



Keep the Con's Clean — You must keep the cows clean if you would 



produce good milk. We consume more filth in milk than in any other 



article of feed. People talk about the animal odor of milk, A few years 



ago I was visiting with a cheese maker who lives on the Northwestern 



Road and he was telling me that he was having trouble with his cheese 



and his milk was being ruined by a bad odor, I said to him : "You know 



what that is don't you ? That is filth, pure and simple, cow dung," Pure 



milk does not have unpleasant odors when it comes from the cow. 



Several years ago in the city of Berlin, they had a medical man to 



investigate the milk supply, I will never forget one of the closing 



sentences in his report. Pie said: "The people of the city of Berlin are 



consuming in their daily milk supply three hundred weight of cow dung." 



It was not very elegant, but it was true. 



