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intentionally, or dishonest unintentionally. He may be dis- 

 honest intentionally by not taking care of his milk, by taking 

 some of the cream off, or in various other ways, or uninten- 

 tionally by not taking care of it through ignorance, but the 

 creamery man who will see that the milk is not properly taken 

 care of and know that that milk is not properly taken care of 

 and then admit that milk to his creamery is intentionally dis- 

 honest, because he receives a full revenue for manufacturing 

 that milk by charging so much a pound and he robs the other 

 farmers who have brought good milk there by putting that 

 poor milk with theirs and reducing the dividend all along the 

 line. 



Mr. Monrad: I was just about calling the gentleman to 

 order, because we had arranged for the patrons to have their 

 say yesterday afternoon and this morning, but I am exceed- 

 ingly glad to have heard these remarks and I think he hit the 

 nail right on the head. 



Mr. Ward: I would like to ask the Professor how often 

 the milk should be tested? It is my idea that if it is known 

 that the creamery man tests the milk every Monday, for in- 

 stance, and no other day in the week, that that is hardly a 

 fair test to all the patrons, because a man can bring dishonest 

 milk other days in the w^eek. 



Prof. Farrington : I think it is the almost universal prac- 

 tice to take what we call composite samples, that gets a sam- 

 ple from every load of milk that is drawn to the creamery, 

 and in that way it does not make any difference whether it is 

 tested Monday or every other day. 



Mr. Ward: How long can you keep that before you test 

 it? 



Prof. Farrington : The usual custom is to keep it about a 

 week; some keep it ten days. I think the majority of cream- 

 eries keep their samples about a week. 



Mr. Carlson: Have you any objections to the one-third 

 sample test? 



Prof. Farrington: No, but I don't see why it should be 

 any better . 



Mr. Carlson: In 1891 I made a test both ways, taking a 

 composite sample and putting it into a jar, at the same time 

 taking a sample of milk and putting it into a tester and testing 



