122 RECEIVING MILK AND CREAM 



From the tin cup filled with hot water take a clean maple wood 

 stick, dip up with it a small amount of cream, taste it, return 

 the stick to the hot water in the tin cup and use the second 

 stick for the next can. By this method the hot water melts the 

 cream off one stick while the other one is used, and thus insures 

 its freedom from cream of the previous can when it is again used. 

 Enough cream adheres to the end of a stick of the size of the 

 average lead pencil for proper tasting. A larger amount of cream 

 is unnecessary as well as objectionable for convenient grading. 



The dental spittoon serves to catch the expectorations of 

 the cream by the grader. This is preferable to spitting on the 

 floor, which is unsightly and often unsanitary. The spittoon, 

 being connected with the water line by a long, flexible rubber 

 tubing, can be shifted around at will and it stands high enough 

 to furnish an easy target avoiding splashing over the cans. The 

 expectorations are automatically rinsed out of the spittoon and 

 disappear on the floor through the hollow pipe standard sup- 

 porting it. 



It is advisable to grade closely and to allow to pass as first- 

 grade cream only, cans which are free from specific defects and 

 which are above suspicion and to pull out and place in second 

 grade all cans that do not meet the standard of first grade cream, 

 or cans about which the grader is uncertain. All cans segregated 

 out in this manner should be graded over and this should prefer- 

 ably be done by another man, or the superintendent. Enough time 

 should be given and pains taken to regrade this second grade 

 cream so as to insure accurate work. This will often enable the 

 creamery to return to first grade, cans of cream which at first 

 sight proved uncertain, thus increasing the per cent of grade 1 

 and decreasing the per cent of grade II. If any cans are found 

 with decayed cream or cream otherwise unfit to be made into 

 butter, their contents should be poured into the sewer and the 

 patron should be so notified. The sanitary laws of some states 

 require such procedure. In case of dispute the co-operation of 

 the local or state pure food or health official should be solicited. 

 If for any reason it is deemed advisable to return to the farm 

 decayed cream, it is advisable to mix into it enough butter color 

 to preclude all temptation on the part of the producer to send 



