The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-01-23
Connecticut Dairy
 Products Are Good
Butter. Milk and Cream Get Scores in Competition Bacteria in Milk Away Below the Government Minimum.

The scores on the butter. milk and cream which were entered in com, petition, were announced at the meet ing of the Connecticut Dairymen's As sociation Saturday. That high class of dairy products is put on the market by the members of the asso- citation was shown by the announce ment made. A perfect score for put ter is 100. and while none of the but ter exhibited got perfect score. the scores showed it all to be a high class article of food, Nn-ie the milk was stood we'll
 According to the United States gov ernment standard milk that shows less than 400 bacteria per cubic centl- meter is considered a perfect milk in so far as bacteria are concerned. The amount of bacteria found in five sam ples of milk in competition was less than 400 and the sample submitted by A. J. Pierpont of Waterbury show ed but no bacteria. and this sample it was said, showed the least bacteria of any milk ever entered in coInpetl- ton at a convention of the association The awards in one of the milk compe- tition classes were ribbons, in the fol- lowing order: Blue to the highest, req to the next yellow to the next and white to the fourth.
 In the exhibit of milk and cream for market there were Substantial prizes, in addition to the four ribbon awards, and there were ten premiums in this class. The first four, in addition to ribbons. got each registered bull calf and the next four got money prizes the highest being S20, the next s15 and the next two $1o and S5 re- spectively. The ninth award was one dozen Yankee COW tail holders and the tenth premium was five Yankee COW tail holders.
 The butter competition was attrac- lively displayed and, in addition to the premiums offered by the association there were premiums put up by manu- lecturers of products that go into butter making. such as salt, and there were also premiums by the manufac- turers of butter making machinery In the discretionary class d prize was offered to the exhibitor who had jug a awarded to the exhibitor who had a basket filled with butter. made in i'm itation of strawberries, and this same exhibitor had also some butter made in imitation of ears of corn. The butter and the other exhibits were tested by Professor c. E. Lee of the University of Wisconsin. Professor Lee said that in scoring the butter, he adhered to the highest standards. and while the butter of some of the dairy men did not score as high as it did a year ago. he regarded it as equally as good butter but he had scored it on a different basis than year ago the basis on which it would be scored in the New York or Chicago markets The scores on the butter, milk and cream were announced as follows:
 Creamery Butter.
 B. S. Hawkins. C. A. C., Storrs. 96.5 Wirsted Creamery Winsted, e4.5 New London Dairy Co., N London 93 Neds Brook Creamery. CollinsvilIe 92 , Milo D. Beach Litchield. 92.5 Suffield Creamery Sufheld. g Simsbury Dairy CO, Simsbury, g T. A. stanley. New Britain 905 MilIbrook Farm Dairy Middletown 90
 In this class S100 was divided in proportion to the scores.
 Dairy Butter.
 c. c Lundquist. Berlin 95.5 H. E. Savage & Son, Berlin. 94 w. A. Wadhams. Bloomfield, 93.5 Mrs. H. J. Williams, Pleas Valley 9S F. L. Ives, Iitchheld, g