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ILLINOIS STATE DAIKYMEN’s ASSOCIATION. 
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printed in The Prairie Farmer/ did not consider liis theory as 
amounting to anything; his statement as to the poor keeping 
qualities of Western milk was a mere assertion, substan¬ 
tiated by no proof whatever; he believed Western milk 
would keep as long as any milk, if let alone. Mr. Arnold’s 
charge would not hold together, as he admitted that butter 
made by I. Boies & Son, of Illinois, brought thirty-three 
cents per pound, while the best Eastern butter was worth but 
thirty cents in the same market, Western Milk actually pro¬ 
ducing butter worth three cents per pound more than Eastern 
milk. Animal heat was expelled by cooling, not by heating; 
a beefsteak from warm meat, before the animal heat had 
been expelled, was not tit to eat, and the same rule would 
apply to all meats; believed the theory of expelling animal 
heat from milk by heat was a farce. 
Dr. J. Tefet here gave explanation as to how the micro¬ 
scopic investigations were made. Said he furnished the 
instrument, also examined the samples of milk, but saw no 
foul or foreign substance; believed the “ local enemies ” seen 
by Mr. A. to have been caseine caused by the acidity of the 
milk. 
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Dr. R. R. Stone had objections to the Arnold letter; 
thought Mr. A. an enthusiast; we were too apt to believe all 
the Eastern men tell us, and often to our sorrow; the theory 
of expelling animal heat by steam was all a myth; the idea 
first originated in the fact that a lumberman kiln-dried his 
lumber by steam, and why not cure cheese by the same 
process ? Eastern men with Western ideas are dangerous 
characters. 
D. C. Scofield said Mr. Arnold referred, in many places in 
his letter, to the fungoids which are only found where stag¬ 
nant water is used by the dairy, and which nothing but scald¬ 
ing would kill, when the truth was the samples of milk 
examined were from dairies which could not have possibly 
had access to any stagnant water; it was a charge which 
