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such practice. The argument of self -cleaning is a poor one and 

 we have yet to see the make of hand separator cleanly enough 

 in habit to be found going to the river for a morning bath. 



Needful and practical are these suggestions to farm con- 

 ditions and they play no minor part in controlling the kind of 

 product that leaves our creameries, bottling plants and other 

 manufacturing establishments. Bacteria are as active and foul 

 odors as penetrating in the manufacturer's plant as they are on 

 the farm. So, the same rule employed by the dairymen to se- 

 cure a sanitary article should be more rigidly enforced by the 

 manufacturer. The care of utensils and the cleaning of pipes 

 need, if possible, even more careful attention, for there is more 

 at stake. In special instances all the milk or cream may become 

 contaminated by passing through one filthy pipe, in which in- 

 stance, a creameryman's convenience becomes his enemy. Speak- 

 ing from the standpoint of the creameryman, though there may 

 be a difference in the skill of buttermakers in handling the raw 

 material, no one has become such a master of his trade that he 

 is able to restore those d'elicate flavors when once they have been 

 eaten away. 



In the educative moments for better dairying the manufac- 

 turer occupies a peculiarly enviable position. He, above all, is 

 in close touch with the source of production and the instances 

 are pleantiful where the seed of good dairying, scattered by the 

 manufacturer, has in later years yielded a plentiful harvest of 

 progressive and systematic dairy farms and farmers. Such im- 

 provements are not only the result of his immediate contact with 

 the milk producing centers, but also the result of the manufac- 

 turer making use of his imperative position. If correct methods 

 are pursued he is not only able to instruct but to request more 

 than he may demand. 



The consumer also plays no small part in this campaign. 

 Perhaps no stronger appeal can be made for purity and quality 

 than that of a public sentiment. Sentiment that is the result of 

 familiarity with the dairyman and his problems, and which un- 

 derstands the true meaning of the term wholesomeness, purity 



