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but this does not include the tearing down and rebuilding of 80 

 per cent of the creameries which are totally unfit for pasteuriza- 

 tion. 



Nevertheless, I will guarantee that I can go into most cream 

 eries where butter scores below 90 and improve it by pasteuriza- 

 tion several points, but I would not guarantee to continue to do 

 so all the time unless the building was in a condition to be kept 

 perfectly clean. 



The way commission men return for ''extra" which are not 

 extra and pay a one-half cent "above" the market, does more 

 to prevent improvement in the manufacture than all the indiffer- 

 ence of the makers and economic ideas of the owners. If all 

 butter marketed was paid on the strict scoring made at 

 Topeka we should soon see creamery men turn to pasteurization 

 for immediate relief and to better care of the milk for permanent 

 improvement. The value of pasteurization is indicated by the 

 significent fact that 90 per cent of the Danish co-operative 

 creameries pasteurize, while but few of the large ''estate" cream- 

 eries (getting the milk from their own 200 or 400 cows) do so. 



