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you know of where during the period of 30 days there has been 

 any groat injustice done to the patrons by the composite test. 



Mr. Laekkn : No sir, so far as experiment goes I don't know. 

 We have never experimented. Such injustice's may exist as a mat- 

 ter of fact. 



Mb. Anderson: Is that theory or practice? 



Mr. Larsen : It is certainly both. 



Me. Anderson: Would you advocate the abolition of the com- 

 posite test then, that is what I would ask ? 



Mr. Larsen: No sir, I would advise sampling every day and 

 toting every two weeks. 



Mr. Anderson: Then you would mix the samples taken every 

 day ? 



Mr. Larsen : Yes, I would mix them. 



Mr. Anderson: That would be a composite test wouldn't it? 



Mr. Larsen : Yes, but it would be taken with a milk thief. 



Mr. Anderson : You don't catch my idea. You said if a cow'3 

 milk tested 3 per cent today and 4 per cent tomorrow, for in- 

 stance, the man was being paid more than he ought to be paid. 



Mr. Larsen: If you took a dipperful from each of the two 

 samples, yes. 



Mr. Anderson : Now. would you advocate thirty tests a 

 month, one daily? 



Mr. Larsen : No, I would advocate taking a good sample from 

 the milk each day with a milk thief, use a preservative and test 

 about everv two weeks. 



Me. Anderson : Isn't that what they are doing now mostly ? 



Mr. Larsen : No, I don't think it is. 



Mr. Bancroft : The way I understand it is that one day they 

 received 300 and another day 100, and the first day they should 

 have taken out three times what they did when they received 

 only 100. 



Mr. Larsen : Yes, sir. 



Mr. Bancroft : Therefore the composite test would be correct ? 



Mr. Larsen: Y'es. 

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