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fore taking a sample. Take a clean cooler and fill it with boil- 

 ing water and set that cooler into the weigh can and stir it around. 

 Have a tank of hot water where you can set the cans into it be- 

 fore dumping and be sure the ice is all dissolved before taking a 

 sample. 



Mr. Glover : — I don't believe a farmer ought to bring frozen 

 milk into the factory. He ought to take pains enough to cool 

 the milk and cover it with blankets and it will not freeze. 



Mr. Mason: — A little caution will prevent all that. 



A Member: — The two coldest mornings v\^e had, the first 

 morning some frozen milk, but the stirring up they got, we did 

 not have any the next morning. If they will cover the cans 

 there is no necessity for that. 



A Member : — :We take eleven or twelve cans of milk and 

 have had very little frozen milk this winter ; we cover it up. 



Q : — What proportion of the cream is hand separated and 

 what proportion is the other? 



A: — I have no records with me, but I have completed visit- 

 ing in Lake, McHenry, Cook and DuPage counties. No cream- 

 ery received hand separator cream there, but as we go in the 

 western part of the state, there we find hand separators and whole 

 milk. Only one factory here, and that is Belvidere, that takes 

 in anything of hand separator cream. Out in the western part 

 of the state you find hand separation. 



O : — Where the dairy business is most highly developed, 

 where the farmers are making money, they are all whole milk 

 creameries ? 



A : — Yes sir, in the Elgin district especially. 



Mr. Lee : — It is certainly a detriment to the creamery indus- 

 try that we take in as much frozen cream as we do. Sometimes 

 it can't possibly be helped, but it would be far better if we could 

 get all milk properly taken care of. 



Q : — Can the average housewife use this starter he speaks 

 of, the one who gets only a few gallons of milk a day? 



A : — Yes sir, she can. Take it with the housewife, she takes 

 Detter care of her cream as she carries it along, and the day before 



