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most of it to Chicago; had it scored along with o tub of butter 

 made in the right way from milk that had not been so ill-treated, 

 and it scored within one point of the other. I hope the butter 

 was consumed right away, for I am not going to tell you the 

 condition of that butter from silage milk two or three months 

 after. For immediate consumption perhaps it would have been 

 all right. 



The reason is just as Mr. Gurler stated — the question of the 

 silo is a question of the silo only. It is not true that everybody 

 can make good silage milk ; even experiment have their faults, 

 except in Michigan, and it is possible that when some man who 

 is naturally cross-grained runs across this silage milk he can 

 detect some odor in it that should not be there, and the unsophis- 

 ticated farmer unless he uses great care in the matter is certain to 

 get his milk " out of whack." There is a good deal of sense in 

 the condensaries objecting to this milk. In Michigan, where 

 we have several large condensaries, they have never objected to 

 silage milk, in fact the best recommendation for the silo was 

 written and published at the expense of the condensary. 



Mr. Cobb : — I have been up in Milwaukee this last fall. 

 The breweries there would not use cane sugar or beet sugar at all ; 

 they say there is lactic acid in cane and beet sugar and that they 

 use corn sugar because there is no acid whatever in it, and the 

 acid spoils the beer. Why should it not spoil condensed milk 

 the same as beer? 



Mr. Smith : — That is all nonsense. There is no acid in beet 

 sugar, is there Prof. Farrington? It is 99.7 per cent pure sugar. 



Mr, Cobb: — That is what they told me. 



Mr. Smith : — They had some fermentation in their minds. 



The President : — We know there is condensed milk made in 

 sections where there are no silos that spoils. I know of thou- 

 sands and thousands of dollars worth burned up, and I presume 

 the rest of you do. I do not think they can lay it to ensilage, in 

 fact I know they cannot. 



It has often occurred to me that with our several experi- 

 ment stations, especially at Madison, Wisconsin, and Minnesota. 



