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aid in eliminating dirt and bacteria during the process of milk- 

 ing. For this purpose a white suit has decided advantages 

 over a colored one, for it tells at a glance wli^ther or not it is 

 dirty. 



Here then we have the essentials of a clean milk and of a 

 sanitary milk. It is milk from a healthy cow, which is kept 

 clean ; milked in a clean stable by a clean milker into a clean 

 pail, and handled by clean and healthy employees in a clean 

 milk room, and in dishes that are really clean ; and which is then 

 immediately cooled below 50° F. And by the use of the word 

 "clean" I refer only to such a degree of cleanliness as has been 

 pointed out in the above sections, which does not involve ex- 

 pense to the producer except in the extra care taken every- 

 where. Healthy cows and cleanliness will give a milk free 

 from dirt and bacteria of disease. Cold will keep it in this 

 condition. We cannot get a sanitary milk from a cold dirty 

 one, or from a warm and clean one. All three elements are 

 essential to success. 



People are beginning to tip over the milk bottle and look at 

 the bottom as well as at the cream layer on the top, and they 

 are beginning to know what the presence of manure dirt and 

 hairs on the bottom of a milk bottle mean, and to insist on 

 their absence. The people are certainly demanding more from 

 all food producers, and the milk producer is now being included 

 in this list. Added expense will naturally have to be met by 

 the persons demanding the added purity; but when the ques- 

 tion is one of a milk that is not actually and physically dirty 

 we can remedy much of this trouble by the simple expenditure 

 of a little care, and this the people will not only demand but 

 will demand rightly. That such results are easily possible of 

 attainment is shown by the fact that the proportion of dirty 

 milk samples fall off much after the first inspection of the milk 

 supply of a town. 



If any suggestions of value have by chance slipped into this 

 paper the author will be gratified. 



