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Question. You think, then, that they better keep the 

 milk at home ? 



Mr. Hazen. It is possible that they can make more by 

 selling the milk and buying fertilizers to bring the farm 

 up. 



Mr. F. H. Williams of Sunderland. Let me ask this 

 question : Did the man who brought this milk raise any pigs 

 or calves ? 



Mr. Hazen. Yes, sir ; he raises his calves and a pig or 

 two to furnish him with what pork he wants to eat. It may 

 pay him better to feed it out. 



Mr. Myrick. I understand that you pay one dollar a 

 hundred pounds for milk delivered at your factory, and that 

 the patrons of the factory can have the skim-milk back for 

 twenty-five cents a hundred pounds. In other words, the 

 patron who returns the skim-milk to his farm gets seventy- 

 five cents a hundred for the milk furnished, and carries the 

 hundred pounds of milk both ways, to and from the factory. 

 Is that the size of it ? 



Mr. Hazen. That is the size of it. 



Prof. Alvord. In the first place, let me remark that I 

 should advise that man who tried the creamery against the 

 separator to try again before he came to a final conclusion. 

 In the second place, I want to ask Mr. Hazen whether his 

 patrons who bring their whole milk to the factory bring it 

 once or twice a day ? 



Mr. Hazen. Once a day. 



Prof. Alvord. At what time ? 



Mr. Hazen. In the morning. 



Prof. Alvord. How do they take care of the night's 

 milk? 



Mr. Hazen. They strain it and set it in a tank with the 

 covers on over night. 



Question. Do you allow them to bring the cream, or 

 must all your patrons bring milk ? 



Mr. Hazen. I allow them to bring it in any way they 

 choose ? 



Question. Do you consider butter made from the sepa- 

 rator equal to that made from the open setting ? 



Mr. Hazen. I do, sir. 



