1 88 ILLINOIS STATE DAIRYMEN'S ASSOCIATION. 



Prof. Kennedy: I might say, while I am a live stock man, in the past 

 I had some experience in regard tc; separators. This dilution separator 

 has been tried at the Experiment Station, at the Massachusetts Etxperi- 

 jnent Station, and at the Iowa Experiment Station. The agent came 

 Along and he said) this will take all the butter fat out of the milk and do 

 All this and do all that, so we gave him a fair trial and he left as much in, 

 -6-10 was the lowest he got out of it there. We got as good results from 

 the shallow pan as this. The ce ntrifugal machine will skimi milk down 

 to 1-10 of 1 per cent; The man with the dilution separator has never done 

 that. I had occasion to try one in Canada where they jvere advertising 

 this separator. They said it would do such wonders, and/ 1 wanted him 

 to demonstrate publicly how he took it out, but they never said a word 

 and never heard, from them since. The notice was taken out of the 

 paper and that was the last of it. 



Mr. M'onrad: As the gentleman is fk-om southern Illinois I made 

 no answer on northern Illinois' work. Why the farmers used it is this. 

 When adding the water it threw up quickly a large column ofi what look' 

 ^d like cream, We have com'pared that cream with balance of cream not 

 used with dilution separator and would findl that it was very much thin- 

 ner. That was tried thirty years ago in Germany and it was explained 

 in that way. 



Mr. Dorsey: The point Mr. Monrad made is goodl It covers the 

 answer to the question. The ere am raises very quickly. Our people who 

 are using this machine are not people who have fifteen or twenty cows, 

 but perhaps two or three gallons of creamfa day, and! this machine made 

 less work for the busy housewife, and the grade of butter is improved 

 over our country grade of butter. I think Mr. Mionrad answered) the 

 question. 



