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plunge it into ice water it will be all right and no bad effects 

 will come from it; but if you seal that with dirt in it, or cow 

 manure, or odors from the feed, or anything of that character, 

 you are going to have trouble. Clean milk can be sealed imme- 

 diately without any fear of spoiling because it was not exposed 

 to the air. 



Member: — Will milk drawn from the cow and immediately 

 sealed before it is cooled be as good as that milk that is cooled 

 without being sealed immediately, that is as far as flavor is 

 concerned? Will the sealing before it is cooled have any effect 

 on the flavor or keeping quality? 



Mr. Lane : — If the milk is clean it may be sealed immediate- 

 ly and plunged into cold water, but the trouble is there is not 

 much of the milk that is absolutely clean. 



Member : — Is there not a big difference in the flavor of milk 

 from different cows, just as it comes from the cows, the cows 

 being all fed the same? 



Mr. Lane: — Not very much. The difference in flavor 

 would come largely from the difference in the amount of butter 

 fat. Jersey or Guernsey milk with 4 or 5 per cent fat is a little 

 pleasanter, a little smoother to the taste than the Holstein or 

 Ayershire that runs low in fat, say 3^ to 3 per cent, and if I 

 were scoring the two milks and they were both absolutely clean 

 and one was rich in butter fat and the other lower in fat, I would 

 invariably favor the higher fat being a pleasanter flavor. 



Member: — With the surroundings of the ordinary dairy- 

 men, where the cans are closed and not cooled immediately, 

 would there be any difficulty in regard to the bacteria in milk, 

 or would the flavor in the milk be affected in that way ? We are 

 told sometimes it is better to leave the cans open and stir the 

 milk, that milk well stirred while cooling is better than milk 

 well cooled and not well stirred. What is your opinion of that? 



Mr. Lane : — It is impossible to smother milk but if the milk 

 is not clean and you shut it up without cooling, then you will get 

 the smothered flavor which comes from the dirt and bad odors 

 of the milk, bad odors that have been thrown off. If you take 

 milk that perhaps has a little odor of the cow stable and run it 

 over the cooler, you will get rid of some of it and the mere fact 

 that you have cooled that milk makes it possible for you to seal 

 it up as tight as you please. Milk, even though it is slightly 



