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variation will be so slight that it will overcome all the difficulty 

 of dissatisfaction." 



The President: "I am glad Mr. Boyd has made that point. 

 His way is to have all the cream uniform." 



Mr. Boyd: " With any can that will make it uniform." 



Mr. Potter: "My experience has been that a certain quantity 

 of milk or water improves the quality certainly, and the quantity 

 a little. I never was able to get good results from heavy, thick 

 cream." 



The Secretary : il There were some tests made in the city of 

 St. Louis involving the integrity of some business houses there 

 in connection with an oleomargarine investigation. There were 

 butter tests made there, and as I remember seven samples were 

 procured from Elgin and other factories, Iowa, New York, 

 Pennsylvania, and I think in all some eighty odd samples were 

 tested, all creamery goods; the object was to ascertain what the 

 standard was for butter in the United States. Prof. Dettmer 

 made the experiments, and it was decided that standard should 

 be eighty-six per cent, butter fat. The samples of butter I 

 think varied from seventy-eight and a half up to eighty-eight 

 and a half per cent. The amount of caseine incorporated in the 

 poorer butter was a poor investment indeed, destroying the 

 keeping quality of the goods, while it had no immediate effect 

 except, perhaps, showing in white specks, still proving that it is 

 wretched policy to make extra weight in butter and have it run 

 lower in quality. When you add six or eight or ten per cent, 

 to the quantity you are so deteriorating the quality that the loss 

 will accrue in the end. Quality should be a prime object, with 

 a due regard to quantity as the next consideration in importance." 



Song ? " Rocked in the Cradle of the Deep " — J. G. Lumbard. 



The president stated that the awards on the butter display 

 were ready for announcement. 



Mr. Chester: " I wish to say before the premium list is read 

 that it has been my misfortune to have had to handle the score 

 cards for quite a number of dairy shows. I want to say to the 

 exhibitors who have made the exhibit here that I never handled 



