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clean, sterilized. How is it possible for the average farmer 

 throughout ^Massachusetts to sterilize those cans? How can 

 you expect him to sterilize them? These are questions we 

 would like to have answered. 



The Chair. Do I understand the lecturer that he would 

 aerate the milk as it comes from the cow? 



]Mr. Allen. My point is this : that, if you can aerate 

 this milk inmiediately after it is drawn from the cow, in a 

 room where the au' is pure, you not only take out a certain 

 amount of odors that are in the milk, — if you have been 

 feeding turnips, or cabbage, or any food that carries odor in 

 it, — but you also take out the animal heat, and bring the 

 milk down to a low temperature instantaneously. "We have 

 five milkers at our place. We run all our milk over a rota- 

 tor, winter and summer : and I have noticed, since I com- 

 menced to aerate it, which was about four years ago, that 

 my milk has a more delightful taste to it, so much so, that 

 by taking two samples of milk, one that has been aerated 

 and one that has not, I could pick out the aerated milk at 

 once hy the taste. It tastes cleaner and purer, and helps 

 the product in many points, especially in preserving the 

 qualit}^ of the milk. We should take more pains with our 

 milk, in making and protecting the product, and then de- 

 mand the price. 



The Chaik. I see Mr. E. A. Waters in the audience. 

 He has been superintendent of the Moen farm in Worcester, 

 Avhere they make extra fine milk. 



Mr. Waters. I want to emphasize what Mr. Ellis has 

 said about the consumer helping the farmer out by paying 

 him a fair price for what he produces. I contend that there 

 is no farmer living in Xew England Avho can make milk and 

 sell it at 3 cents a quart at his door, and get an}^ profit out 

 of it. I think, if I were going into the milk business on my 

 own hook, that I shouldn't pay a great deal of attention to 

 sanitar}^ conditions, if I were away back in the country, and 

 had to take cans such as are given to the farmers Avho fur- 

 nish the Boston market with milk. A fiirmer who lives 

 near a large town or city, and retails his own milk, can 

 in a measure get some returns for good, wholesome milk. 



