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of little spheres, than it is with handling a smaller number 
of large ones. I cannot conceive of such improvements in 
the methods as will make it possible to get along as well 
with the little spheres as the large ones. 
Question - Have you found difficulty in the results by 
churning when the cream has great variations in the num. 
ber and size of globules in the same cream? 
Answer - Yes, sir 
Question -And you obtain less satisfactory results with a 
lack of uniformity than with a uniform size? 
Answer - Certainly. 
Question -Have you any experience as to whether the 
-different kinds of feed, or the proportions of feed affect the 
size of the butter globules? 
Answer - Indications, sir; that is all. 
Question -But you believe it to be more inherent in the 
character of the cow? 
Answer-I do; I believe it is more dependent upon breed 
than feed. 
Question -More in the same breed than upon individual 
characteristics? 
Answer --Decidedly more so. 
Mr. Hoard - In different ages of cream mixed tegether, 
isn't there a difficulty in securing a uniform condition of 
ripeness, so as to prevent the running off of unchurned 
cream into the butter milk? Will not one portion of the 
cream come to butter before the other, and when it does come, 
does it not disperse the unchurned portion in the butter- 
milk? 
Answer -I think you will agree with me that there must 
be a time in the age of cream, dating from the time it came 
from the cow, when it is in its best condition for churning. 
Now, if we take the cream from Monday morning, from 
Monday night, from Tuesday morning, from Tuesday night 
and from Wednesday morning, and wait for Wednesday 
morning's milk to be in that correct condition, we will get a 
long way from that stage in Monday morning's milk. We 
are in the same predicament if we have the cream from 
three consecutive milkings, or relatively so. In other words 
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