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except those that have been compHmentary to our work, even 

 though we call attention to the defects. We have written farm- 

 ers who have been careless, and the only letters we ha\'e receised 

 have l3een letters thanking us for calling their attention to their 

 unclean farms. In each case where attention had been called 

 to their farms they have taken notice of what we asked, except 

 one man wrote back he thought we ought to give a little bit more 

 attention to the creamery. I wrote back that we gave as much 

 attention to the creamery as the farmers ; the creamery man says 

 we ought to go to the farmer, so you see we are working be- 

 tween two kinds of people. It has a wonderful influence when 

 the creamery and its surroundings are kept clean and nice, ])ut 

 you can't talk to patrons unless your creamery is kept clean. 



Mrs. Purviance : — :When bringing milk to the factorv do 

 they wash the cans there or just simply take them home as the 

 milk w-as poured out? 



A : — With the Borden people there the cans are washed be- 

 fore they are returned. But the average creamery, they take the 

 skim milk back or the whey back in the cans, and the cans are 

 not washed at all. There is one thing I wish to mention. I 

 hope there are none of the farmers here who take milk to the 

 factory, and when the factory people pull off the covers and take 

 it up and look at it to find that yellow skum on the top — it has 

 been there more than two days, for the covers of the cans are not 

 clean. See that they are washed off and that yellow stuff waslied 

 off. We find some of the covers are hard to clean. Get at it 

 with a brush, but finish up with good hot water and put the 

 cans up to drain, and be sure your can is clean the next morning ; 

 never put milk in unless cans are perfectly clean. 



Q : — Do you use soap ? 



A: — Certainly, if well rinsed out before putting the milk in. 



O : — How do you manage the milk when it comes in frozen. 

 In regard to taking samples and composite tests ? 



A : — I w^as at a factory two weeks ago and a lot of frozen 

 milk came in and I noticed that they took a sample of the mdk 

 and knew the cream was frozen. The milk should ])e melted be- 



