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features have been endorsed and recommended by the Mas- 

 sachusetts State Grange. We append two sample reports 

 from a Michigan report : — 



At Ionia. 

 A. M. Welch. — Cows in very good condition; stables excep- 

 tionally clean ; ventilation good ; sanitary conditions excellent ; 

 uses spring water ; drainage good. Cows are cleaned twice a day ; 

 wells and ceilings of stables whitewashed twice each year ; has 

 clean, well-ventilated cooling room, and all modern appliances for 

 handling milk in a neat and systematic way. 



At Cadillac. 

 C. J. Holman. — Stables unclean ; drainage imperfect and 

 manure allowed to accumulate near stables ; ventilation fair ; 

 sanitary conditions poor. 



Cream. — Condensed Milk. 



Sales of cream continue to increase, and, as much of the 

 market cream is manufactured on the factory plan in large 

 creameries of good standing, the quality is to a great degree 

 uniform and satisfactory. As the cream is sold to the trade 

 in small cans, the opportunity to tamper with it is largely 

 removed. It would be an advance step for the cans to have 

 a label containing a guarantee of quality. This would be no 

 hardship to these creameries or other leading producers, for 

 the cream is now of good quality, but it would educate con- 

 sumers to differences in the quality of cream and to the rela- 

 tion between varying qualities and price ; it would also 

 reduce any tendency for less scrupulous dealers to sell a 

 lower grade at the regular price. 



A Philadelphia newspaper says : — 



Probably no recent development of the retail grocery business 

 has been more noticeable of late years, especially in the mill and 

 labor districts, than the increase in the sale of condensed milk. 

 Grocers who formerly sold none of this now sell stacks of it, and 

 grocers who used to sell a few cans a month now sell several 

 cases. Every condensed milk manufactory in the country has in- 

 creased its output 25 per cent this year, and it is sold up to the 

 handle. 



