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These implements are so successfully made now that 

 water can be run through from a reserve tank and the warm 

 milk right from the cow run over it, and the temperature of 

 the milk reduced to nearly that of the water, and the rapidity 

 depends simply upon the size of the cooler. 



The milk thus treated is much more healthful, palatable 

 and digestible as are also the various products, thus insuring 

 better health when used as food, and preventing many dis- 

 eases, and quite likely saving the lives of many infants and 

 persons of weak constitutions or with systems susceptible to 

 disease germs. 



Thus the value of aerating and cooling milk is simply 

 problematical and is not demonstrable. 



Mr. Perriam: T do not want my friend Hostetter to 

 come here and talk heresy. He said frost did not kill vegeta- 

 tion. Frost does kill vegetation, but there is a great varia- 

 tion as to the freezing point with different vegetation; for in- 

 stance, cabbage freezes at about forty, while some other kinds 

 run far below that. The idea that he promulgated is all 

 right, but I did not want him to enunciate horticultural heresy. 



A prize was also offered by the Chicago Stamping Com- 

 pany for an essay on the subject "Care and Cleaning of Milk 

 Cans," in which case Prof. T. L. Haecker acted as judge. This 

 prize was also taken by Mr. W. R. Hostetter: 



CARE AND CLEANING OP MILK CANS. 



W. R. HOSTETTER. 



Very few people will neglect to do anything they realize 

 the importance of doing or that will be of personal benefit to 

 them. Make the user of the milk can realize in some way 

 that it will be to his interest to keep it clean and it will 

 be done. The refusing of milk from a dirty can with simple 



