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leave it until you get it to the factory the sample has increased 

 in acidity. If you want your driver to discriminate, the testing 

 must be done at the farm right then and there. If he goes along 

 morning after morning he will not have to test many. It is 

 only now and then he will find a bad case that it is necessary to 

 test, and it is a question for you as a manager whether the ad- 

 vantage will justify the little extra time it will take. I am in- 

 clined to think the explanation makes it seem more work than 

 it is. 



Mr. Gurler : — They have time to do the work, but will they 

 satisfy all the patrons. If he rejects their cream they will say, 

 " Here, there will be a man along here and he will get the 

 cream," and he does. 



Prof. Van Norman : — You are up against a problem I have 

 no solution for, and I know of no man that has. 



Mr. Gurler : — The idea is all right, but whether it is prac- 

 tical in the country in some sections, is another question. 



Prof. Van Norman : — I cannot of course advocate or pre- 

 scribe it in every case. Is it true that the buttermaker run- 

 ning a creamery has all kinds of difficulties to encounter when 

 the milk and cream is brought by his patrons to the door, and 

 he has to use his good sense and judgment to soive them, and 

 let the hauler use his tact and judgment in the same way in 

 determining the acidity. In the west where they have big 

 creameries, they are using this test and using it with a reason- 

 able degree of satisfaction. In a community where there are a 

 large number of competing creameries these problems have to 

 be handled more tactfully, and often creameries have to suffer 

 because we have to take what we don't want. Only last week 

 I had a letter from a woman who ships us a nice lot of cream, 

 stating that the December test was too low and that she must 

 have a better test next month or she would not send. I wrote 

 her that our test is only a device for measuring and like a pair 

 of scales, and if we were wicked we would cheat on the scales. 

 The only difference is that she understood the scales a little 

 better than the test. You can get a Babcock tester for $5.00. 



