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agree that it is hardly practicable to carry on that system. But we can 

 offer premiums to the farmers who deliver the best milk during the month 

 or year. Let the creamery men give a premium for the best milk during 

 the month, taking a test and explaining it. Take the tests carefully. It 

 is some work because you have got to have those glasses all sterilized 

 and go at it properly, but it is work that pays. Take your test, and after 

 twelve hours it will be coagulated in one solid column. You smell it and it 

 has a clean, pleasant acid smell. In another, fermentation bubbles of 

 various sizes show, and the smell is horrible. 



Let me tell you of a personal experience I have had in a creamery 

 within the last year, where I made this fermentation test. Out of sixty 

 samples there were only ten samples that were perfectly good, and there 

 were ten samples that simply stunk — there is no other word for it. 



I want the creamery men to stir up this matter and let them offer 

 premiums to those farmers who give the best milk, and one hundred 

 dollars spent every year on some such system, I am confident, will help 

 you to get good milk. I give this hinl in order that something may be in 

 the report on this subject. 



I don't know that I have anything new to ofter, I have been out of the 

 business for the last six months, and have not followed the dairy interests 

 as much as 1 used to. If there are any other questions I would rather see 

 the meeting get up a discussion: 



DISCUSSION. 



Mr. Humphrey: Were the sixty samples sent from the same cows? 



A. Just alike, from the same patrons. Let me tell you more of this 

 test. Get some glasses as long as that (shows size) and all alike. This is 

 set in a heater, or hot water, the steam connected with the heater gives 

 a uniform heat. You want just the right temperature. They were set ii» 

 the same condition and each vessel was covered. It is a simple thing, but 

 it requires great care, and mind you, if you are going to do it, don't teli 

 your buttermaker to do it for extra chores. Get one of your farmer's 

 daughter and show her how to do it. That will give more satisfaction 



