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we made another experiment in the way of illustrating to students here, 

 by milking with the dry teat, or moderately dry, and milking with a milk 

 teat; that is, allowing some of the milk to be washed off an unwashed 

 udder and allowing to drop in the bucket. It is terrific the way germs 

 reproduce themselves. I cannot hardly express it. I would be glad to 

 bring up the charts some time and show you. 



Mr. Gurler. — I just wanted some of these facts brought out to show 

 the ground for the public demand for a higher grade milk, and when we 

 can bring that about we are going to increase the consumption of milk 

 very largely. 



We are not all going to get to the front, although there is room for us 

 all, but we can do better. I hear the complaint among creamerymen 

 every time I go among them. The trouble is the milk is off and the 

 butter is off, and they will have butter rejected, which means a loss to 

 the creameryman and a loss to the patrons and works more mischief than 

 you can calculate. 



Now the greatest trouble lies in the faulty construction and care of 

 our cow stables, and there is no reason why this should be so. It is not 

 a very great expense to have a sanitary cow stable. The expense is 

 not very large of putting in a cement stable floor with the cement all 

 throughout the gutters and platforms and mangers. The stable over here 

 at the University barn cost 11 cents per square foot, finishing the whole 

 surface of the gutters and the mangers. Now I have in one cow stable a 

 cement floor, 64 cows on 3,600 square feet, that is practically 60 square 

 feet per cow. At 11 cents a foot would be $6.60 per cow for the cement 

 work. We can put in a wooden stall of some of the improved stalls — 

 the Bradwell or Hoard's Model Stall, that are not an expensive stall. 

 But here is one thing you want to keep in mind all the while, that is one 

 of the curses, you line the cow up on the manger, when she should be 

 lined up on the gutter. The stall should be so constructed that it can 

 be adjusted, the front should be adjustable to keep the cows lined on 

 the gutter. This is necessary, if you are going to keep the cow reason- 

 ably clean, without seme one in the barn all the while to look after the 

 droppings and keeping the cows clean. 



One other point I want to speak of here and perhaps it is not strictly 



