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both wavs for one straight month to find out what the varia- 

 tion would be, and I found that it varied once in seven times. 



Mr. Woodcock: I go to Mr. Johnson's creamery occasion- 

 ally in the winter time and my milk is kept two days. Now, 

 do I get a lesser test on my milk by keeping it two days than 

 to bring it every day? 



Prof. Farrington : I think that you ought not to. I think 

 there is no fat destroyed by keeping the milk; that is, the or- 

 dinary fermentations — bacteriologocal combinations, or what 

 ever they may be that go on in the milk, do not destroy the fat. 



Mr. Monrad: Do you think it is possible to take as fair a 

 sample when the milk is delivered every other day as when it 

 is delivered every day? 



Prof. Farrington: I should think the chances would be 

 against it. 



Mr. Monrad: 1 am sure it is a fact that it is impossible 

 and the patrons are losing money by delivering every other 

 day. The test is not so accurate, for one thing; they don't 

 get the skim milk back in a good condition, and I want to see 

 this every-other-day delivery wiped off the face of the earth. 



Mr. Carlson: Mr. Monrad is right in a great many in- 

 stances, but I think he is wrong in this. I have been paying 

 for milk according to the test in this factory since x\ugust 18, 

 1891, and it is generally believed and understood by the farm- 

 ers in our vicinity that 3^ou cannot get a fair sample and that 

 the butter yield was greater in the winter time above the oil 

 test than in the summer time, but the farmer does not lose 

 one cent, for the reason that he gets the money that the entire 

 product has brought. 



Mr. Monrad: He is losing money by the poor quality he 

 gets every other day and by the skim milk being worthless. 



Mr. West: I think if the milk is carefully taken care of, 

 getting the animal heat out and stirring it thoroughly, I don't 

 think it makes much difference, but if the cream is permitted 

 to rise and become lumpy it goes against the patron. 



Mr. Johnson: If a man has only four cows you can't ask 

 him to haul his milk thre miles everv dav. 



