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are trying to test their cows, and buttermakers that have been 

 kind enough to volunteer to test the individual cows. I believe 

 that our buttermakers will go home in the future and will say- 

 to- their patrons, to> the poor and good ones alike, they will not 

 discriminate in that matter, "Bring over your milk and when 

 I have time I will make a test for you. Bring a sample once 

 a week; a composite sample.' I do not care very much for a 

 composite sample particularly; I would rather do it on Sunday, 

 and if the buttermakers could get the farmers to milk their cows 

 on Sunday and take a sample of the morning milk and a sample 

 of the evening milk and have that tested, they could get a fairly 

 accurate test of the quality of their butterfat, and multiplying 

 that by seven you can find out what that cow is doing for 

 seven days, and it will not cost you much of anything. 



The scale is the best thing the dairyman ever had next to 

 the pail to put the milk in. We are going to have lots of those 

 things, and they will come along in a general, practical way, 

 as a result of these missionary meetings of buttermakers that 

 have been organized all over Iowa. That is the leaven that 

 has been producing good results. That is the only thing in my 

 mind. I do not go as far as others on this centralizing 

 proposition. I believe there is a great deal of good resulting 

 from the work of the centralizing plants. It is taking the fellow 

 that is so far away that it is impractical to get his milk to the 

 creamery and giving him the opportunity to ship his cream, and 

 I know he sometimes ships under mighty poor conditions. This 

 thing will work itself out in time however, but of course there 

 is the fact that the centralizer Is not in touch with the patron 

 and cannot educate that patron as he should, and that patron is 

 not in position to take advantage of the direct tests made by 

 experts, as to what his individual cows are doing, so that patron 

 is going to be an incubus instead of a stimulus to the dairy 

 industry. It is the farmer himself that is going to suffer for it. 



The Chairman : I am sorry the noon hour has passed and 

 we will have to bring this discussion to a close. Mr. Keiffer 

 has the scores which he will read. 



