CARE OF MILK BY PATRONS. 153 



I remember in my early experience of buy- 

 ing butter at my grocery store that I could 

 taste mayweed in very distinctly. How that 

 flavor got there T never learned but supposed 

 the cows ate the weed. 



An object lesson. At a dairy school in 1892 

 we one day let a can of bloody milk go into the 

 day's work to show the class the result. We 

 found bloody matter on the wall of the sepa- 

 rator and a very bad flavor to the cream the 

 next morning. We also found the same flavor 

 in the butter, and we immediately disposed of 

 the butter on its merits. 



I think I have given enough facts about the 

 susceptibility of milk and cream to absorb 

 odors from the surrounding atmosphere to con- 

 vince any unbelievers. If not they must be con- 

 vinced by some one else or go their own w T ay 

 until they get an experience that costs them 

 enough to cause them to remember it. Many 

 of us are so constructed that we cannot profit 

 by others' experience; we do not appreciate in- 

 formation that costs us nothing. 



