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the butter and said, " We can not take the butter unless you 

 remove the difficulty." The buttermaker supposed it was the 

 silage and laid it to that, and finally he imagined he found it in 

 the milk, the smell of the silo in the milk of one certain patron 

 of his creamery by the name of Brown. Brown was mortified 

 to have his milk objected to. There was another patron of the 

 creamery by the name of Thorgenson. Thorgenson did not 

 have a silo. One day the two patrons changed cans, Thorgen- 

 son using Brown's cans and Brown using Thorgenson's. When 

 the milk come in the buttermaker took a sniff of Brown's milk 

 in Thorgenson's cans and said, "That's good enough," and 

 then came to the cans marked *' Brown," turned up his nose 

 and said, " Same blasted silage again." But you must be care- 

 ful to advise your patrons to be careful in feeding. 



The President : Did I understand that your cutter cost S175? 



Mr. Trow: A large cutter mounted on trucks. 



The President: One hundred and three dollars without 

 trucks. 



Member: Is it not a fact that condensing factories object to 

 silage milk? 



Professor Smith: The book we use in Michigan as a text- 

 book on silage was gotten out by a condensary. They get 

 220,000 pounds of milk a day in a condensary within twenty or 

 thirty miles of Lansing, and most of it is made from silage. 

 That is the Gale Borden people. 



Professor Moore : They will not handle it in Wisconsin and 

 and Northern Illinois. 



Professor Smith: Well, I understand they are going to cut 

 it out in Michigan. But this much is true, Mr. Chairman, that 

 no force has built up more silos in the State of Michigan than 

 those condensary people. We had a little warning that they are 

 going to make trouble with us next winter, but I don't believe 

 they are going to cut off silage milk. The text- book we are 

 using was written by the vice-president of the Gale Bordon 

 Company, and we are furnishing them milk at the the rate of 

 220,000 pounds a day, and I will guarantee that 150,000 pounds 

 of butter a day is made from silage milk. But about a month 

 ago there was a little warning given out that we might have 

 some trouble next winter about this silage-milk. They have been 

 taking this silage milk seventeen years. 



