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than a foot or fifteen inches it is separated into drops and all 

 aired. Well, we all know what a deodorizer pure air is. 

 We depend upon its action upon the blood for every breath 

 we draw. Now, that simple arrangement, inexpensive, easily 

 kept clean, is the best I have ever seen, — and I may say that 

 I have not a cent's interest in it, nor in any other patent right 

 Avhatever. It is simply a large tin pail, without a bail, the 

 tin turned over, a heavy wire at the top, and that is held in 

 an iron arm, that goes into a standard fastened to the can, 

 suspending it over the centre of the milk-can and the bottom 

 drilled or punched full of holes three-sixteenths of an inch in 

 diameter. The milk, as I have said, starts out in streams 

 and separates into drops before it reaches more than fifteen 

 inches, I should think, below the bottom of the strainer. I 

 say it is the easiest to keep clean, it is the cheapest, the most 

 readil}^ used, and eflects the object the most perfectly of any- 

 thing I ever saw, and I am sorry it is patented. We use 

 forty-gallon cans, all the wa}^ of a bigness, for carrying milk, 

 but this can be used anywhere, on any can, by using a tun- 

 nel below, if you have too small a mouth to the can. 



Question. How high above the can ? 



Mr. Lewis. You can place it just as high as you please ; 

 that is, if your ladder is long enough. When the wind blows 

 you do not want it but a little way above the ground. When 

 the atmosphere is still, or very hot, the higher you get it up 

 the better. I made a good many tests with that a year ago 

 last July, in the hottest weather we had, and I foupd no dif- 

 ficulty whatever in keeping the milk sweet thirty-six hours. 



Question. Where can a man find one of those? 



Mr. Lewis. Go to any tinman and get him to punch 

 holes in the bottom of a pail and haug it up. 



Question. No patftnt on that? 



Mr. Lewis. There would not be, I think. 



Question. Does this take out the animal heat entirely as 

 well as the o(Jor? 



Mr. Lewis. Oh, no ; it will not cool it below the temper- 

 ature of the atmosphere, nor quite down to that. I would 

 say that A. P. Bussey of Westernville, Oneida County, is the 

 inventor. I am sorry, as I have said, that he has got a pat- 

 ent, but if I lived here, I would get a tin pail and punch 



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