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off flavor, if cooled, can be sealed immediately and remain so, 

 but if it is not cooled and you shut it up close you get that smoth- 

 ered flavor. It will show up every tme in testing for flavor and 

 this could be avoided by stirring the milk or running it over a 

 cooler, and I prefer the cooler every time because you not only 

 get the effect which you have from stirring this and driving off 

 any bad odors, but you cool it much more quickly. I realize a 

 good many of you have not these patent coolers and have to 

 resort to this method of setting the milk in ice water and stir- 

 ring it. If it is put in cold water and thoroughly stirred the 

 temperature can be put down to 60 which is fairly good, but if 

 it is run over a cooler you not only get the effect you would by 

 stirring but the additional benefit of bringing to a low tempera- 

 ture. Does that answer your question? 



Member: — In part. I know of dairymen who close their 

 cans just as soon as they are full, the covers are put on tight, 

 and then they wait until all the milk is drawn before they remove 

 the cans from the barn. I do not believe they can make as good 

 flavored milk in that way as they could if they took it immediate- 

 ly, as soon as one can was filled, and cooled it down, leaving the 

 can open. 



Mr. Lane. — You are right, if the milk is not clean. 



The Chairman: — We will have to bring this discussion to 

 a close and take up the next topic on the program, Lessons From 

 the Butter Test, H. J. Credicott, Butter Government Inspector 

 of Chicago. 



LESSONS FROM THE BUTTER TEST. 



Mr. H. J. Credicott, Chicago. 



Mr. Chairman, Ladies and Gentlemen : — 



In discussing this question of lessons from the butter test, 

 we might discuss it from two standpoints, the lessons we have 

 learned and the lessons we may learn. I do not think we have 

 ever gotten as much out of the butter tests as we could have, we 

 have been looking at them from a wrong view point. The butter 

 tests were first started in connection with fairs and conventions 



