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apple, whose variety is not known, by simply looking 

 at it. 



The process referred to for testing the quality of 

 milk can be made of practical value in several ways; it 

 can be used by town and city milk inspectors to guard 

 the consumers, so that in their milk supply fraud will 

 be detected and honesty protected, and at infinitely 

 less cost than by a chemical analysis. 



Any owner of miich cows can make this milk test a 

 very profitable detective in his herd. A pair of scales 

 for weighing the milk produced by each cow and a test 

 of the quality of the milk for a time will furnish evi- 

 dence by which he can decide, not as a matter of opin- 

 ion simply, but as something clearly demonstrated, 

 which cows should go to the butcher and which he 

 should use for continuing his dairy. 



At the present-time the most extensive and import- 

 ant use of this milk test is made at creameries, and by 

 its use the patrons can be paid for the pounds of butter 

 fat contained in the milk they bring to the factory 

 instead of the pounds of milk only. Selling milk on the 

 " test plan " is a comparatively new thing, and prob- 

 ably a great majority even of the people interested in 

 milk and milk testing would ask for an explanation of 

 the expression. Nevertheless there is a constantly 

 increasing number of creameries that have adopted 

 this way of paying the patrons for milk, and the honest 

 farmer is beginning to seek, find and patronize them. 



Some persons who are particularly interested in but- 

 ter production have long scanned the dairy horizon for 

 a practical milk test; several have been devised and 

 tried, but I have yet to meet the person who refuses to 

 assign the gold medal to the " Babcock" milk tester, 

 and I will briefly describe it: 



