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in this audience a straightforward talk on the care of creaniv 

 Mr. Marple, who sat by me seems to think this talk was incom- 

 plete, that Mr. Newman had failed to make himself as clear he 

 he should have done how first class cream, which is clean cream 

 is produced. 



Clean milking is not a difficult thing if you have this con- 

 venient and clean milking place. The stanchions and cement 

 feeding troughs which you find in this building is the first 

 equipment, but the drawback is that there are lots of people- 

 who have not the money with which to purchase them. I w'ill 

 build stanchions for ten cows that will answer the same purpose 

 and put in a floor at $i.oo per cow, not counting my labor. It 

 can be put in and when your cows will be clean, a clean milk wil- 

 be possible. Run the milk through a clean separator, so ^ve 

 must have clean separators and clean utensils, applying to pails 

 and cans, etc. The next proposition is that of getting the ani- 

 mal heat out of the cream just as soon as possible. If the caif 

 is set in water and given a stir or two, up and down motion, ati 

 an interval of a few minutes it is the best way. There are 

 many men who put cream in the cellar and put a clean cloth ov- 

 er the top and think it is all right, but it is better to put it m 

 cool water and stir it occasionally. Then do not mix that cream 

 with the cream of the previous day until it has thoroughly cool- 

 ed, then it will be all right. Wlien you milk, leave it cool ^or 

 twelve hours. When the cream is mixed give that a stir. Then 

 the place in which this supply can is held, let it be a clean, 

 sweet-smelling place at a temperature of well water. On nine 

 out of ten farms there is well water of a temperature that wiD 

 hold this cream in a very satisfactory condition for delivery 

 every two o rthree days, but again in this matter of makings 

 arrangements for cream cooling the gumption of the man who 

 is at the head of the concern is the thing. Do the best you know 

 bnw. 



