TEST OF DAIRY APPARATUS 



The rollowing are the results of a test made at the New 

 Hampshire Experiment Station, January 8, 9 and 10. 1889. 



The accompanying "rules" were read before, and sanction- 

 ed by, the President and Secretary of the Granite State Dairy- 

 man's Association, the Sefcretary of the State Board of Agri- 

 culture and the Director of the Experiment Station ; the same 

 persons agreed upon the following committee to conduct the 

 work : J. L. Gerrish, Secretary Dairyman's Association, Geo. 

 S. Philbrick member of the State Board of Agriculture, and 

 D. S. Bridgman of Hanover. The Experiment Station was to 

 furnish apparatus, provide milk, and so far as possible render 

 assistance in way of manual labor etc. The chemica] work 

 was to be done at the Station Laboratory. 



RULES FOR TESTS OF DAIRY APPARATUS. 



"At the Farmer's Institute, to be held by the New Hamp- 

 shire Board of Agriculture, Granite State Dairyman's Associa- 

 tion, and New Hampshire Agricultural Experiment Station, at 

 Hanover, N. H., Jan. 8, 9, and 10, 1889, the following tests 

 will be made : 



First. Comparative test of Moseley and Stoddard, Cooley, 

 Johnson Top Can Separator, and the DeLaval Hand Power 

 Separator; also any other apparatus manufacturers of which^ 

 may express a desire to enter in this test before Jan. ist. 



Second. A test of churns, including Stoddard, Davis, and 

 Blanchard, and any other which manufacturers may request to- 

 have tested ; this request to be made before Jan. 1st. 



RULES. 



I. One representative of each system will be allowed to 

 witness all operations, to see that each variety of apparatus is 

 handled as it should be, the actual work, however, will be per- 

 formed by men selected by the Director of the Station, the Sec- 



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