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Another thing that needs to be paid more attention to is the 

 place where the cream is kept. This is repeating things that 

 have been said over and over again, but it is with it as it was 

 with a good woman who was scolding her children. She scolded 

 them for something they did but in a few minutes they did the 

 same thing again. Her husband was there and he said : "Martha, 

 why do you scold those children twice for the same thing?" She 

 said : "John, I tell them the good thing and the right thing and 

 if it is a good thing it cannot be told too often." So it is with 

 this sanitation, although it is repeated like a story and told every 

 day, it must be kept constantly in mind. Think of it before each 

 meal, think of it before you go to bed, think of it when you get 

 up and you will get nearer where you ought to be. 



I have been accused of being pessimistic on this subject and 

 have been told I ought to take an optimistic view of the situation. 

 Have you ever heard the difference betwen an optimist and a 

 pessimist? The optimist is the man who sees the hole in the 

 doughnut and nothing but the hole ; but the pessimist is the fel- 

 low who keeps his eye on the doughnut. So I want you to hold 

 the pessimistic view, in other words keep your eye on the cause. 



Now about the place of keeping cream : I have been on sever- 

 al thousand farms in this State, and I have seen many different 

 conditions. I have found cream that has had all of the evils I can 

 think of from the cabbage smell to the smell of the pig pen. Just 

 as Mr. Newman said, cream that tasted of meat that was deteri- 

 ating very rapidly ; the cream tasted as that meat smelled. I have 

 taken the cream outside of the place where it was kept so as not 

 to flavor the cream with the odor of the room, but that same 

 taste was there. I have tested cream that tasted of apples because 

 the cream was standing where apples were kept. I have tasted 

 of cream that tasted of potatoes because it was kept where pota- 

 toes were. There is no excuse for that negligence on the part 

 of the farmer. A good place where milk and cream can be prop- 

 erly kept will not cost much. Every man who is in the dairy 

 business ought to have a milk house that is used for nothing else ; 

 but if you are not in the dairy business heavy enough so that you 

 feel a milk house is too much of an expense you can afford an 



