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If he can get his customers to go out and see the way he 

 makes the milk, and the way he talies care of it, he can get 

 a good, fair price for it ; but even then he can't get enough 

 to make any money at it. He ought to get from 10 to 12 

 cents a quart for his milk, providing he is furnishing good, 

 wholesome milk, 5 per cent or more. 



The lecturer spoke about his customers finding fault with 

 the cream because it was too thick. I know that there are 

 some people who, if you furnish them with 50 per cent 

 cream, will complain of it because it is too thick. I had a 

 customer last winter who found fault with the cream, saying 

 it was too thick, she couldn't do anything with it, and want- 

 ing to know what the trouble was with it. I told her how I 

 thought she could thin it, which she did, and found it was 

 all right. I had another customer telephone me that the 

 milk was growing poor, and I asked him how much cream 

 he got from the top of the bottle. He measured it, and said 

 three inches and three-quarters, and I told him I didn't make 

 anything any better than that, and said, "I can't furnish 

 you cream for 7 cents a quart. '^ I haven't heard anything 

 further from him. 



Mr. Van Norman (of West Newton). I understood Mr. 

 Lyman to say that it was as easy to produce a good quality 

 as it was a poor quality of milk. Isn't there more profit on 

 a cow that produces 60 or 80 pounds of 2.6 per cent milk 

 that is sold for the same price, than on a Jersey that pro- 

 duces 25 pounds of 5 per cent milk? If the value is in the 

 quality, how is it possible to produce a good quality of milk 

 as easily as a poor one ? 



Mr. Lyman. I intended to say that the same milk can be 

 produced in a clean and nice condition as cheaply as though 

 it were not clean and nice. But I will say, what most of 

 you know, that milk cannot be increased in its butter fat, 

 whatever be the feed given to the stock, whether it be a 

 richer grain or poorer. Every milk will analyze the same 

 percentage of butter fat, whether the stock is ill fed or 

 well fed. 



Mr. Van Norman. I think that, perhaps, would bear 

 qualification. Can a man milk as many cows when brushing 



