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Answer: That is all, none but exhibitors are allowed to re- 

 ceive instructions in that room. That is the rule we made to 

 start with and I thiiik we will have to stick to it. 



Meeting- adjourned. 



READING OF SCORES BY SECRETARY P. H. KIEFPER. 



I would like to make a statement before reading the highest scores^ 

 I consider the scoring of butter at a convention a sacred thing and ii 

 should be guarded as such. I will explain to you the system followed 

 here. 



The butter, after it arrived, was stripped of the burlap or tub 

 it was in, the address taken off and copied in a book, and then' there 

 v/as a tag similar to this (showing tag) tacked on the tub, with No. 1 

 written in black pencil and No. 1 entered in the book. The next tub 

 was stripped, another tag put on and No. 2 put on with black pencil and 

 No. 2 entered in the book with exhibitor's name. No. 3 was stripped 

 and the tag put on land numbered No. 3 and the man's name entered No. 

 3, and so on until we numbered 136 tubs. There was nothing on the 

 tub; everything we discovered on it, names, etc., were scratched off. 

 There was nothing left on the tub excepting this tag, — this piece of 

 paper. After that was done we went down and solicited the services 

 of Mr. Kimball, editor of the Creamery Journal. He consented to help 

 us, for which I want to thank him. We went up there, gave him a 

 pencil and told him if he saw anything on the butter tubs that would 

 indicate who it was from, or any mark or anything of the sort, to scratch 

 it off and to change every tub about as he saw fit, then with a blu^. 

 pencil to mark a number on the tag and the number that he marked or. 

 this paper he marked on the cover of the tub. He did that on all the 

 butter. Then we pulled the tags off and kept these papers. He had 

 the key to the tubs. I had the number and name that I entered but 

 did not have his number. He had the numbers that would correspond 

 with the numbers on the tubs; he kept this until after the scoring. 



No. 99 in the blue is the one that scored the highest — W. S. Smarzo 

 of Masonville; score 98 — used Alpha Separator, Victor churn, Wells- 

 Richardson color, Diamond Crystal salt. Next highest, J. E. Scott, Du- 

 buque. He does not give any information how he made his butter. 

 Score, 97i^. 



Calls for Mr. Smarzo and Mr. Scott. 



The President : Is Mr. Smarzo or Mr. Scott in the build- 

 ing? Will Mr. Smarzo please come forward. Mr. Scott is not 

 present. 



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