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Milkers are required to wash their hands before milking. 

 Milk is sold at wholesale at 36 cents per can. 



Mr. Josiah Q. Packard, Brockton, winner of the seventeenth 

 prize, has a farm of 84 acres and keeps 35 cows. The stable 

 is in the form of an extension from the main barn. He 

 milks into a hooded pail. Flanks and udders are brushed 

 before milking. Milk is retailed for 9 cents per quart. 



Mr. Charles S. Bisbee, Haverhill, winner of the eighteenth 

 prize, has a farm of 35 acres and keeps 6 cows. The stable 

 is in the main barn over the cellar. He milks into an open- 

 top pail. He washes his hands before milking. Flanks 

 and udders are brushed with hands. Milk wholesales at 

 40 cents per can. 



Mr. Marcus C. Southworth, Brockton, winner of the 

 nineteenth prize, has a farm of 105 acres and keeps 80 cows. 

 The stable is in the form of an extension from the main 

 barn. It is well lighted and ventilated. He milks into an 

 open-top pail. The stable is wet down to lay the dust. 

 Flanks and udders are washed. Milk is sold at 9 cents 

 per quart. 



Mr. Jose Pontes, Swansea, winner of the twentieth prize, 

 has a farm of 44f acres and keeps 7 cows. The stable is 

 in the main barn on floor level. He milks into an open-top 

 pail. He washes his hands before milking. Udders are 

 wiped with a damp cloth. Milk is wholesaled at 44 cents 

 per can. 



Report of Clean Milk Contest, Western Section, 



1913. 



The first prize in the western section. State Board of 

 Agriculture clean milk contest, 1913, and also first sweep- 

 stake prize in the same contest, was won by Mr. Peter 

 Kronvall, East Longmeadow. Mr. and Mrs. Kronvall are 

 both natives of Sweden and have lived in this country 

 thirty years. When they came here Mr. Kronvall worked 

 in a stone quarry, and fourteen years ago they decided to 

 buy a farm, and purchased the one on which they are now 

 Uving. Mr. Kronvall does not know how to milk and does 

 not care for cov/s, but his wife urged him to stock the farm 



