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the better it will please me, I see that he does not get any back 

 home. It makes me much more labor to take care of thinner 

 cream than thicker and he will have more milk to feed his calves 

 at home. If he were shipping to some centralizing plants, I 

 think after he had paid freight on thin cream a while he would 

 quit it. 



Mr. G. H. Gurler : — I think the man who is emptying the 

 cream out of the farmers' can into the can he transports it, that 

 the thick cream adheres more to the can and more is left adhering 

 to the farmer's can than there is in the case of the thin cream. 



Member : — We sample our cream and weigh it. You take, 

 for instance, cream testing 35 to 40 per cent, as we often get it, 

 we have some trouble in emptying the cans and that is a disad- 

 vantage to the patron unless you rinse it out. 



The President : — Don't your creamery rinse your cans out ? 



Answer: — Certainly, but there is a loss after they are 

 rinsed. How would you overcome that? 



The President : — Pour your cream from one can to another, 

 if necessary. The better way is to do that, pour from one can to 

 another. It does not seem to me that any buttermaker here 

 is so ignorant but that he rinses out his heavy cream can, for we 

 certainly want all the butter fat we can get. 



Mr. Mann : — We are getting considerable hand separator 

 cream, several patrons change off in hauling; have one route of 

 seven, another of six. Their cream is sent to the factory in 

 their own cans, milk cans. These cans I have weighed and have 

 marked the weights on the can. They have two sets, one of them 

 at the factory. I take the gross weight, but the cream is emptied 

 after sample is taken. Before taking sample I use an agitator 

 so the cream is thoroughly stirred. I then modify the cream 

 and rinse the cans ; wash the cans for our patrons, perhaps not 

 too good, and they are left until the farmer comes the second 

 day. The cream is hauled every other day. I have built a rack 

 outside the creamery and the cans are turned bottom side up 

 and in l"iat way I find it very convenient. We get all the cream 



