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five or six barrels, and we run the sweet milk in there. 

 When that tank gets full it overflows into the larger 

 one, so that those who want sweet milk direct from the 

 separator can draw it from this one vat. Many of our 

 patrons take sour milk in preference to sweet, 

 they have got in that habit. We sell it at a low 

 price and get rid of it nearly every day, and 

 if it accumulates we drain it out. We have no jet 

 pump, or anything of that kind to get our milk up. 

 We drive up to unload from the wagon, and the 

 platform is about as high as the wagon; we set the 

 milk on there and it is weighed and run right into 

 this vat, and that floor is elevated, and the next floor 

 where the separator stands is down lower, so it runs 

 down itself. 



Mr. Kino: I would like to ask some of the mem- 

 bers what their opinion is in the value of sweet and 

 sour milk to feed to calves ? 



Prof. Farrington: That is a subject which I hope 

 some time to have an opportunity to make some experi- 

 ments on. Of course, it is a fact that in the decompo- 

 sition of the milk there is a destruction of solid matter, 

 and in that way there must be a loss of feeding value 

 in very sour milk over sweet, because something has 

 necessarily to be destroyed; but whether calves will do 

 better on sweet than on sour milk, or equally as well, 

 I do not know of any demonstration controlled by 

 actual figures that "have been made. 



The committee on nominations made the following 

 report: 



" Your Committee to nominate officers for the ensu- 

 ing year beg leave to report the following names: 



President Lovejoy Johnson, Stillman Valley; Direc- 

 tors: John Boyd, Elmhurst; E. E. Garfield, La Fox 



