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initial cost of the pasteurizer, and second the cost of operating, viz. 

 the time and trouble involved. It is generally conceded I think by 

 most people and under most conditions, the advantages outweigh con- 

 siderably the disadvantages of pasteurizing cream. Of course I am 

 not here to state that it is a paying proposition to invest in the pas- 

 teurizing machine under all conditions. At the creamery in which I 

 am interested we have no pasteurizer, and I do not believe it would 

 pay us at the present time to invest, and there may be other creameries 

 in a similar condition; but I think under most conditions it will pay 

 to pasteurize cream. Local conditions, largely will have to govern as 

 to whether it pays for a certain creamery to install a pasteurizer or not. 

 I thank you. 



DISCUSSION. 



The Chairman : We hav.e just a few minutes that we might 

 use in discussing this matter. Are there any questions on the 

 subject? 



Mr. Hugland : I would Hke to ask Mr. Larsen why pas- 

 teurized goods do not bring more than goods from raw material ? 

 They certainly should bring more on account of their keeping 

 qualities for export or storage trade. 



Mr. Larsen : Yes, I think pasteurized goods really ought 

 to sell at a higher figure than the goods that is manufactured 

 from raw cream. I think they do in England, but it is a defect, 

 perhaps due to the commission men or to the market. I do not 

 know what governs the price of butter, whether it is entirely 

 governed by supply and demand or by the quality. I think 

 there is a tendency at the present time to pay, perhaps, the same 

 price for a poor quality of goods as for the better cjuality ; they 

 do not discriminate sufficiently close and I believe that paying 

 for butter according to quality is one of the things which ought 

 to be encouraged. Mr. Healey, of New York, who is perhaps 

 one of the best authorities we have in the United States in 

 regard to scoring butter and selling butter, states that we ought 

 to have a certain score which is to be paid for at a certain 



