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butter maker that if jou can only reduce the price of this arti- 

 ficial refrigeration, you have found a good thing. I am some- 

 what familiar with artificial refrigeration, but it has always 

 been a question in my mind whether it can be brought to a 

 sufficiently small expense to make it practicable in the average 

 co-operative creamery. Some years ago I was with S. W. Al- 

 lerton and I know how refrigeration works in his factories. 

 We abandoned the old ice refrigerators and put in ammonia 

 plants. We did not get any dryer air, but we got much 

 cheaper refrigeration. I believe that three out of five of the 

 ice boxes found in our creameries are a damage. The tubs 

 come out mouldy and soaked with water — not properly dried 

 out. Now, if this can be reduced to an extent that it can bo 

 made practicable, why it solves the question of refrigeration. 

 I feel very much obliged personally to Mr. Hopkins for his 

 paper. In the South certainly this system would be of great 

 value. 



Mr. Monrad: There is another point that we must not 

 lose sight of, and that is that artificial refrigeration gives the 

 butter maker complete control of the temperature of his cream, 

 and I lay great stress on that. It is a good deal easier to turn 

 a valve than to go out to an ice house and get a hundred or 

 two pounds of ice. , 



The convention adjourned till 7:30 p. m. 



EVENING SESSION. 



The convention met at 7:30 p. m. same day. 



Mr. Gurler in the chair. 



Before the regular program of the meeting was taken up, 

 Mr. W. E. Mann, of Kaneville, was called forward to receive 

 the several prizes awarded to him on account of his butter 

 scoring the highest in the exhibit, viz, 98J points. 



Mr. Mann received the gold medal offered by the Elgin 

 Board of Trade, a gold watch and |15 cash from the Worcester 

 Salt Company, and a gold medal from Wells, Richardson & Co. 



