ILLINOIS STATE DAIRYMEN'S ASSOiCIATION. 163 



Mr. Johnson: Professor, do you think that it does no 

 harm to freeze the milk? 



Prof. Davenport : I haven't very much experience in that 

 kind of work. I am sure I do not want to say anything that 

 would cause any one to allow the milk to freeze. I think it is a 

 very poor plan, but, at the same time, I would like to know of 

 some definite experiments that have been made, so that we can 

 have that to tell our patrons— an actual case where the milk 

 was frozen and was thawed out and then separated, the cream 

 ripened in the same way as usual and the butter sent to the 

 usual market and complained of because it was frozen. I 

 have no definite information except what this gentleman gives 

 me. 



Mr. Wood: We shipped at that shipment forty tubs of 

 butter. That morning we had nine tubs and they were picked 

 out from the rest, and they kicked on nine tubs of butter, the 

 parties that bought the goods. 



The Chairman: You marked all goods all the same and 

 they were picked out of that shipment? 



Mr. Wood: Yes, our commission man told me yesterday 

 about it. 



Mr. Lloyd: How do you know whether those nine tubs 

 were the ones picked out? 



Mr. Wood: I don't know, except that we churned nine 

 tubs. 



Mr. Lloyd: Did you have nine tubs any other day? 



Mr. Wood : Yes, we did. 



Mr. Footh: I am a farmer and a patron of a factory, and 

 I want to say a word in defense of the patron. I have listened 

 quite a while to the creamery men here, telling how they were 

 going to regulate us farmers and stop our bringing our frozen 

 milk. I want to a^k any of the farmers if they ever had a case 

 where their dividends were frozen a little on top? T am going 

 back further than that to the discussion we had before, and I 

 don't want you to take me as being severe, but I mean to give 

 you creamery men a little bit of a lesson if I am able to do so. 

 You exposed the whole meat in the kernel when you made the 

 statement that if you go to such a man and say, "You are 

 not doing so and so," and he says, "All right, I will take my 

 milk to another creamery." Now, a farmer may be dishonest 



