CARE OF MILK BY PATRONS. 158 



I remember in my early experience of buy- 

 ing butter at my grocery store that I could 

 taste mayweed in very distinctly. How that 

 flavor got there I never learned but supposed 

 the cows ate the weed. 



An object lesson. — At a dairy school in 1892 

 we one day let a can of bloody milk go into the 

 day's work to show the class the result. We 

 found bloody matter on the wall of the sepa- 

 rator and a very bad flavor to the cream the 

 next morning. We also found the same flavor 

 in the butter, and we immediately disposed of 

 the butter on its merits. 



I think I have given enough facts about the 

 susceptibility of milk and cream to absorb 

 odors from the surrounding atmosphere to con- 

 vince any unbelievers. If not they must be con- 

 vinced by som« one else or go their own way 

 until they get an experience that costs them 

 enough to cause them to remember it. Many 

 of us are so constructed that we cannot profit 

 by others' experience; we do not appreciate in- 

 formation that costs us nothing. 



