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that lie can cleanse it. Isn't that a bad teaching to the milkman or maid, 

 that there is no necessity of being careful; no necessity of cleaning off 

 our cows' teats; need not wash our hands, and when at the factory we can 

 make it clean there. Isn't that a bad teaching to the farmers? 



The President: It most certainly is, 



Q. From the standpoint of cleanliness isn't it bad? 



By the President: It is from any standpoint, and I don't think 

 there is a separator man that really advocates it that strong. 



Mr. Gaboon: That is an "ad" that 1 read; no matter whose it is? 



Mr. Johnson: I have nothing to offer especially. I am surprised 

 and am led to inquire what the trouble is around Belvidere if you all get 

 into such filthy habits that not one in a hundred wash your hands before 

 breakfast. In our country we all wash our hands and do something in 

 that line, and we manage to keep the milk tolerably clean. If you have 

 such habits around Belvidere I am glad you are getting stirred up like, 

 I have noticed that advertisement, but have learned long since not to pay 

 much attention to such "ads" as that. I don't think they do the damage 

 that our brother from Belvidere thinks they will do; I don't think people 

 believe very much of it. The amount of filth a separator takes out in 

 running through 10,OiOO pounds of milk, if that were put back we would 

 hardly call the milk filthy. You clean out a separator and get consider- 

 able filth from it, but when you distribute that among three or four 

 thousand pounds of milk it is not as bad as some of us think it is. 



Mr. Graham: I use a separator and have for ten years, and think 

 there is quite an' amount of filth, and I don't want that gentleman to thimk 

 it all comes off my hands, because I think my hands and cows are kept 

 clean. I was surprised at the amount of filth I would get out of the sam«- 

 milk by running it through the separator. I supposed milk was clean,, 

 but when I got a separator I found out there was more filth than I imag- 

 ined, and it didn't come off my hands. 



Mr. Cohoon: This is not satisfactory yet. There is too much filth, 

 in our milk. Men use poor pails, and I have had to wrestle with men for 

 not keeping clean. They clean off the cows' teats and have the pails right 



