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in a lumber-wagon, and put three or four tons on it, how 

 much good will it do you? Mr. Meredith says a spring on 

 a passenger coach. 



Mr, Meredith — With a screw of four or five threads to an 

 inch, it might be capable of exerting twenty tons. 



Mr. Root — There is hardly any limit. 



Dr. Miller — I don't think the point is worth holding to. 

 A spring that will exert one pound of pressure will con- 

 tinue that "pressure. 



Mr. Root — I admit that. 



Dr. Miller — And the strength of the spring doesn't count, 

 but the whole thing is settled when he says it takes so little 

 time to do it that the time cost isn't worth counting. 



Mr. Root — Dr. Miller wouldn't have a good deal of time 

 to get away to his other work before he would have to get 

 back and put in another comb. 



Mr. Stewart — Have you ever cut up timothy hay and 

 put in with your cheese? : ■ 



Mr. Root — No, I have not. 



Dr. Miller — Have you done that? 



Mr. Stewart — I have, and with very good results. It 

 gets it separated. 



Dr. Miller — I want to remind Mr." Root to read a period- 

 ical that is published in Medina, Ohio, in which that was 

 mentioned as being done in Germany. 



Mr. Root — You've got me there. 



Pres. York — What's the name of the publication? 



Dr. Miller — Scrapings — or something of that kind. 



Mr. Root — I will read it. 



Dr. Miller — I think it was your brother who asked 

 whether a central affair, something in the middle of the 

 cheese, allowing the wax to come out through, would help 

 any. He tried that, I think. 



Mr. Root — As I look at it, the wax below wouldn't go 

 up to that, and when I get about the wax that I could get 

 anyway, I don't see the advantage of it. You would have to 

 have twice the amount of wax, and you cannot give it the 

 amount of pressure it ought to have. 



Dr. Miller — I -tried it and I don't believe it helps. 

 Mr. Abbott — How many people are there here who get 

 loo pounds of wax every year? [Six.] 



Mr. Abbott — Now you see you can get, what percentage 

 morer 



Mr. Root — I can't give the exact percentage more, but 

 probably one-fourth. 



Mr. Abbott — One-fourth of a pound would be 25 per- 

 cent of wax. What does a German wax-extractor cost? 



Mr. Root— $14. 



Mr. Abbott — 25 pounds of wax at 20 cents a pound — 

 what I am trying to get at is an opinion as to how much in- 

 terest there is in this convention investing $14 in a machine. 

 Not all these theories will work, but they must ultimately 

 work out in dollars and cents or else they are of no use. 

 Just trying to see how much it would amount to, to this con- 



