ILLINOIS STATE DAIRYMEN'S ASSOCIATION 87 



THURSDAY MORNING, JAN. 17, 1907 

 Exhibition Hall 



By the President : — The meeting will please come to order. 

 Mr. Lane and Mr. Truman will talk to us this morning on Milk 

 and Cream, and give us practical experiments. Mr. Lane will 

 speak first. 



MILK AND CREAM. 



By Mr. C. B. Lane, Washington, D. C. 



With higher ideals of food products and a better knowledge 

 of their composition has come more careful methods of judging 

 them. The commercial value of milk and cream, for example, 

 has until recently been rated by the city Boards of Health, and by 

 the milk dealer, on the basis of the fats and solids they contained. 

 If they reached a certain standard in respect to these qualites and 

 contained no preservative, no questions were asked. Now we are 

 beginning to go farther in this matter, and to consider the sani- 

 tary condition of these products, and standards are being estab- 

 lished for bacteria, for foreign matter, for pus cells, temperature 

 etc. In other words, cleanliness is considered a commercial 

 quality. Naturally, the consumer should be the most interested in 

 these standards for judging milk, but he is quite helpless in any 

 attempt he may make to bring about improvements, as consider- 

 able time is required to make efficient tests, and simple appliances 

 are lacking. In order to properly judge milk or cream, then we 



