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cent more, and Avondered that we were willing to run such 

 risks in buying it from the can. Their peddler Avas on the 

 street preparing to go into the house, and I noticed him till- 

 ing his glass bottles by turning out of a can, — the same can 

 from which he delivered milk to me for a cent a quart less. 



Mr. Daavley. Such practice should be made a crime pun- 

 ishable by law. 



The Chair. I have had a little recent experience in re- 

 gard to what people want to pay for milk, and I believe they 

 want to buy it as low as they can. The first of October I 

 put up my price to 7 cents, and to those who wanted to buy 

 it from the can I delivered for 6 ; the first three days I lost 

 100 quarts of bottled milk. They would rather take it out 

 of the old-fashioned can than to have bottled milk at a cent 

 more a quart. 



Mr. W. A. KiLBOURN (of South Lancaster). I have been 

 much interested in the sulrject of this lecture, but I am sorry 

 to say that the gentleman has presented conditions that are 

 not believable. He speaks of Mr. Stewart's price of 20 

 cents, which I should judge Avas a fair price for milk pro- 

 duced under his conditions ; but 20 cents is prohibited to 

 the people who want pure milk. And he says that people 

 must meet the producers half way. Well, suppose they do 

 meet them half way ? We will say half way between 8 or 9 

 cents and 20 is 15 ; they must pay 15. But 15 is prohibited, 

 as these men who tried raising a single cent have found a 

 single cent is too much. Now, it does seem to me that AV'e 

 can have some conditions by which milk of good quality and 

 satisfactory in most Avays shall be furnished at a moderate 

 price, — perhaps a moderate advance OA^er our present 

 l)rices. Then, in regard to the ventilation he speaks of, 

 Avhy, how in the Avorld, Avith such a scheme of ventilation as 

 Avill render the air in the stable as pure as he speaks of, can 

 the cows be kept Avarm enough to produce any tolerable 

 quantity of milk? I think there are difficulties in these 

 statements of the lecturers which Ave hear from time to time. 

 They undertake to proA^e too much, and go beyond practical 

 conditions. I would say that T really do not believe that 

 one farmer in twenty can come up to the conditions Avhich 



