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pump because it is easier, they get that pump to run 

 by machinery, and it saves them trouble. Now, what 

 we ought to have instead of this pump business would 

 be apparatus to lift that milk right from the start so 

 that we can run it by gravity through the whole course 

 of manufacturing. Now, this can not be done properly 

 by the old-fashioned hoisting apparatus where the boys 

 have to hoist up a heavy weight nine or ten feet. I 

 want to ask the inventors of dairy machinery why 

 they don't construct some quick way of elevating that 

 milk, to take it up ten or twelve feet, then it can run 

 all the rest of the way in open gutters that can be kept 

 clean. Milk pumps and rubber hose are things that 

 we ought to use as little of as possible in our creameries; 

 it is a small record, but I want to go on record as being 

 deadly opposed to the milk pump. 



DISCUSSION. 



The Chairman : What is the matter with using the 

 jet pump? 



Mr. Monrad : That is all right for elevating the skim- 

 milk, but I don't think it is nice for the milk. "While 

 I am about it 1 want to kick against your underground 

 buttermilk tank. Do run your buttermilk into a tank 

 that can be cleaned every day ; if you do not, it is 

 bound to stink in summer, and some day the commis- 

 sionman will find you out. 



Mr. Gurler: We have just laid aside a new jet 

 pump that we have been using for pumping the skim- 

 milk, for the simple reason that it would carry over from 

 one day to the next, and gets in a condition that the 

 patrons don't want it. I have no use for a jet pump 

 any where in a creamery, and I don't think it is a bit 

 cleaner than the other kind. I am ready to put aside 



