lC6 ACRICLLTURIv OF MAINE. 



more than the Inspector's visit to him and the mere criticising 

 from one man. 



To show the amount of milk used in the country and the 

 amount used per person I have gathered a few figures. "In 

 the entire country the number of gallons of milk produced in 

 a year is approximately 7,266,000,000 gallons and only 30 per 

 cent of this amount, or 2,000,000,000 gallons, is used as milk. 

 The rest goes into some of the other products, such as cream, 

 butter, cheese and skim-milk. This leaves about six-tenths of a 

 pound of milk per day per person, on the average." That is 

 not as high as some would think. It is a small amount, and if 

 figures could be gotten at now it would undoubtedly be higher, 

 because the use of milk as a food is on the increase, as the pub- 

 lic, comes to realize that milk is valuable and that clean milk is 

 a wholesome food as well as a very economical one. "The milk 

 and cream of the country constitute about 16 per cent of the 

 total food of the average family." There are many babies in 

 this State and a large number of them depend entirely for food 

 upon the milk drawn from the cow. It is found by statistics that 

 the per cent of bottle fed babies is on the increase. Infants and 

 young children furnish the principal market for most of the 

 milk. The fact that the number of bottle fed infants is on the 

 increase shows that some attention is being paid to clean milk. 

 There are no American statistics available on the death rate of 

 bottle fed children as compared with breast fed, but German 

 statistics show that for every child that dies, fed on breast 

 milk, six children die, fed on cows' milk. So you see there 

 must be something the trouble with the milk, or the milk is not 

 adapted to infants. It is found that by modifying it, it can be 

 perfectly adapted to them, and therefore the trouble must be 

 that there is some fault with the milk. Too much attention is 

 given to the fat content of the milk. Milkmen all over the 

 State have a very wrong impression. If any trouble is found 

 with their milk they wm'11 say, I do not see why there should be 

 any trouble with my milk, it has always tested well. The con- 

 sumer has that very same idea. Tie will say. "This man's milk 

 tested well." The trouble lies in the fact that the test of the 

 milk applies only to the butter fat content, as the people in 

 general know it. If the test should include the dirt in the milk 

 and the amount of dirt was reported with the butter fat, the 

 public would have an entirely different idea of the subject. 



