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the seams of my interior. One of my companions looked and said there 

 was a yellowish scum in which there were millions upon millions of tiny 

 animals that were increasing with almost incredible rapidity. 'Twas in 

 August, a splendid month for the growth of false bacteria. 



"The individual having me in charge becamy more and more careless 

 and indifferent. One sultry night I was filled with milk, the purity of 

 which could not be questioned. But soon the microbes began their la- 

 bors of debtruction. They began to multiply at an alarming rate. The 

 morning came and I was taken to the factory with my unclean contents. 

 I was certain the milk would be rejected by the buttermaker, but in an 

 jnguarded moment it was emptied into the weigh can and from there went 

 on through the different recepticles until the cream from which reached 

 the cream vat. 



"The next morning as the buttermaker entered the creamery a for- 

 eign odor greeted him. It became stronger as he came nearer the cream 

 vat. He commenced stirring and smelling and tasting, until he was con- 

 vinced that the butter made from that cream would receive condemnation 

 from some quarter of the globe. But he went on with hisi work. The 

 butter was made and packed — some in tubs, some- in jars.- It so happened 

 that this heedless patron received a jar of this butter. Dinner time 

 comes; the family gathers around the. board to partake of that set before 

 them. The farmer is first to use the butter. An expression of surprise 

 and disgust o'ershadows his face. 'What's the matter with this butter? 

 I never tasted such stuff! Why, it is strong enough to walk! If that but- 

 termaker is going to make such butter as this, I'll speak to the manager 

 and use my influence to have him removed.' " One of the buUermaker's 

 trials. 



Patrons of the creamery, if you are here today and are getting poor 

 butter from that creamery, instead of heaping anathemas upon the head 

 of the buttermaker, get after those cans with water and soap and lye and 

 elbow grease. Give them a bath of scalding water which will forever 

 exterminate those filthy germs. Provide a clean place for your milk, 

 away from the obnoxious, odors of . the~cow*stable, away from the contam- 



