The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1911-09-25
SMELL WINS OUT
|. IN MILK CONTEST
Makes Highest Percentage Ever
Scored in Public Competition
Troy Man Is Second.

Lawrence w. Smell won the high.
est score, s71 per cent. for milk and
cream In the second annual Detroit
milk exhibit now being held In the Y.
M. c. A. auditorium, under the joint
auspices Of the Detroit Board OF
Commerce and the Detroit Board OF
Health. This Is said to be the highest
score ever attained In a public milk
competition In the country, according
to Prof. Ernest Kelly. OF the market
pilk section OF the department Of
agriculture. In Washington.
Prof. Kelly made the tests In the
present exhibit. The second highest
score, for milk, was made by II. b.
Wattles. OF Troy. Mich. and the sec
ond, for cream, by J. +. Belz; the
third, for milk, was tied by Messrs.
Truesdale and DIngleday and the
third. for cream, by K. J. Jennings.
There were III entries-107 OF milk
and eight of cream.
Prof. Kelly came TO Detroit espe-
cially TO make the tests which work
was accomplished under the rules
governing snch competition, issued
by the department OF agriculture. All
samples were examined with no clue
to the sender's identity beyond mum
Der tag attached to the bottle. Ac-
companying the bottle was q plain
sealed envelope containing the send.
er's name and address, which was
not opened until after the test had
been made. In making the tests
many points beside the bacteriolog.
ical analysis We're considered, In the
scoring.
All Of the entries may be seen In
the Y. NJ. G. A. hall, In the exhibition
which 10 TO continue until Tuesday
evening. The bottles seemed to CON
tain the richest OF yellow milk. Mon
day morning. when The Times looked
them over. Each bottle was careful
ly sailed with the little paper caps.
so well known TO the average house
wife. but over these caps, In many
instances. were squares OF clean cloth
securely tied. paper similarly treated.
and parafine. as Mrs. Detroit uses II
to seal jelly and jam Jars.
. The entries were made entirely by
farmers or men like Mr.. Smell, owning
dairy farms, who supply milk to the
city OF Detroit. For this reason alone
the exhibit 10 one In which every man
and woman In Detroit should be In
terested. Every exhibitor will be
given a department of agriculture
card showing his score az the result
OF Prof. Keilys tests, so that he will
~ A. "a a. A.
defects In his product which the milk
expert found.
Hanging around the walls OF the han
are photographs showing the right and
the wrong way to conducS a dairy
farm, pictures OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL tests
showing some OF the "squirmy" look
ing things that are In much OF the
milk consumed by mankind, bad and
model barn interiors and exteriors, the
sanitary and unsanitary manner az
milking and the bad and the model
utensils for same. In attendance at
the exhibit will be milk experts who
will tell visitors the actual conditions
back OF these photographs. Monday
afternoons program included lecture
by Prof Kelly on The modern milk
problem and q second address by
Prof. c. Z. Marshall. head Of the dairy
of the Michigan Agricul-
ture college. Because OF the unavold-
able absence OF Prof. Ivan G. Weld. OF
who was TO have attend
ed the exhibit and make addresses,
Prof. Kelly and Prof. Marshall will do
most OF the public talking. aided by
DIR. W. III. Price, chief OF the milk In
spection squad OF the Detroit Board OF
Health. Motion pictures OF "The man
who learned" otherwise the trans
formation OF a wretched dairy. TO a
model one, will be shown Monday and
Tuesday evenings While the pictures
are thrown upon the screen Prof. KEEL
ly will lecture, and, later he will give
q few facts for the milk consumer to
ponder over, as Prof Kelly believes
that n the farmer r. brought 70 do his
duty, the consumer has a like situa-
ton TO face.
ut Is not all up TO the farmer by
any means Prof. Kelly told The
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