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to make butter out of the cream, that he wanted to make machine 

 oil, — what then? 



Mr. Wright : Now the gentleman is touching the difficulties 

 in the law that I have been talking about. The difficulty in 

 the other case is the difficulty of numbers, because you cannot 

 get any large numbers of them and perhaps you would have 

 similar difficulty in proving the cream was unwholesome. It is 

 no easy thing to go into a community where nobody knows you 

 and get a responsible citizen "pulled" for selling milk only test- 

 ing 2.8 per cent. In the case you speak about you would have 

 the same difficulty. If the man had been churning cream right 

 along and was making all his cream into butter, it would be 

 pretty good evidence that he intended to make buttter out of the 

 cream. There are a whole lot of difficulties when you get a man 

 into court on a criminal charge. 



Mr. Fowler: If you are going to criticise the cream that 

 is taken in because of poor quality, what about the poor butter 

 that is worked over and put on the market? 



Mr. Wright : We already have a law in regard to that. A 

 United States law in regard to renovated butter. 



Mr. Knutson : I do not believe in two grades of butter in 

 one factory. I have always been opposed to it. In our factory 

 we had quite a little difficulty last Spring with hand separator 

 cream. The first day eight or ten patrons brought in cream two 

 days old, — bad. I opened a few cans, smelled of them and 

 they made me sick, I put the cover on and said "Gentlemen, I 

 cannot use it. I did not "scrap'' with them or anything oi the 

 kind, and the cans were taken away. I felt pretty discouraged 

 but I though "Let it go for a month anyhow". When the month 

 was in I had but one cream patron ; about twenty of my patrons 

 shipped away, but a short time after the month was out they said 

 "What do you pay for butter fat?" I told them and they said 

 "How do you do that, it is more than market price?" I said 

 we pay it just the same. In a few days I had three or four of 

 my patrons back, and they are still coming back. Today I have 



