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army and we all know they had considerable trouble. I am one 

 of those people who believe the Borden Company know how to 

 handle milk and if they could use silage milk they would. It is 

 the fault of the man who feeds it. If silage is allowed to lay about 

 the barn and gets bad the milk will be tainted. If ninety per 

 cent of the men fed correctly and ten per cent did it incorrectly 

 it would spoil the milk and the trouble would all be with the ten 

 per cent who fed incorrectly. 



A : — There are three farms that I know of that are using 

 silage. There are five silos in this community and two of them 

 are not using them for dairy purposes, but three farms are using 

 silage for dairy purposes and that is all I know of within this 

 radius. 



Mr. Newman : — I was pleased to hear of this in the High- 

 land Condensed Milk Company. Good things come slowly, and 

 you know in this state, or any other state for that matter, there 

 are farmers and farmers. Some will feed according to rules and 

 some are careless and condensed milk cannot take any chances. 

 Some good will come out of it and we will all reap the benefit. 



By the President : — The next paper we have on the program. 

 We have had the care of cows ; now we will have the " Care of 

 Milk/' by Mr. Clarence B. Dorsey, of Moro, 111. 



THE CARE OF MILK. 



By Clarence B. Dorsey, Moro, ill. 



In considering this subject, it seems best to take up only 

 those points most needed by the dairyman who is producing milk 

 for city supply, for the creamery, for the condensery or for farm 

 buttermaking. We will leave out scientific details and discuss 



