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from heat and in winter from cold. Be cleanly 

 about your work and deliver your milk in 

 prime condition, and then you have a right to 

 demand good returns. Very few realize how 

 susceptible milk is to absorbing any impurities 

 there may be in the atmosphere. 



Milk absorbing odors. In one instance I 

 found milk that was not just right and I could 

 not tell positively what the trouble was until I 

 took some of it and warmed to 110 deg., when 

 I could detect the odor of the hog-pen. I sent 

 word by the driver of the load for the man to 

 come in, as I wanted to see him. When he 

 came I learned from him that he put his night's 

 milk in an open vat in a room a short distance 

 from his hog-pen and left the windows open to 

 cool the room. The result was that when the 

 wind blew from the hog-pen toward the milk- 

 house the milk received the hog-pen odor and 

 brought it to the creamery. A gentleman in 

 Vermont told me of his experience with a 

 skunk around the milk-house. When his but- 

 ter arrived in Boston his commission man de- 

 tected the skunk odor in the butter. 



Bad conditions. Milk will not only absorb 

 impurities after being drawn from the cow, but 

 it may be spoiled before by filthy surround- 

 ings of the cow. I have known of milk being 

 spoiled by the carcass of a dead animal lying 

 in the cow pasture. 1 once traced trouble with 



