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actually had nothing to do with the testing of the cream further 

 than taking the sample, and was promptly fined $25.00 and costs. 

 The persons whom he had favored and evidently who had conspired 

 with him for this purpose reimbursed the creamer^' company $150 

 and further prosecutions Avere abandoned. Of course, the sampling 

 of the cream is a necessary part of the operation of the Babcoek 

 test and as everybody knows may result in tests too high or tests 

 too low at the pleasure of the one taking the sample. The sug- 

 gestion is made that creameries employing cream haulers should 

 check up their delivery in order to avoid not only exceptional 

 cases of the kind above set forth but also to avoid carelessness on 

 the part of the cream hauler. 



The best interests of the dairy business will be served so far as 

 the matter of testing is concerned when every test is accurately 

 made. To raise the test when paying for a can of cream does not 

 seem to most people to be very criminal. The cream agent who so 

 raises the test takes money from his employer and gives it to the 

 person to whom it does not belong and he does still greater injury 

 to the dairy business as a whole because he arouses suspicion of the 

 correctness of the Babcoek method of determining the amount of 

 butterfat present. There are many people in the state who decline 

 to produce and sell cream because they are unable to believe that 

 they are getting a square deal in the payment for the same. For 

 these reasons, the statute provides the same penalty for the raising 

 of the test as it does for the cutting of it. 



The system of buying cream and permitting the buyer to sample 

 and test it either at once or later is a system long established in 

 this state. The employment of cream agents on the part of the 

 central creameries is almost universally practiced and such has 

 been the case for several years. There is no reason to suppose that 

 any radical change is likely to occur in the manner of doing busi- 

 eries. There should be every effort possible put forth on the part 

 ness either on the part of the central creameries or the local cream- 

 of creamery managers, buttermakers, cream purchasing agents, and 

 others to insure perfect sampling and accurate and correct reports 

 and payment for the butterfat present in every can of cream sold, 

 and such practice will be for the benefit of the creamery manager, 

 the producer of cream, and the dairy interests generally. 



