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and as long as the market for milk is in the city, you can 

 create this market in no other way. The milk business is some- 

 thing like a powder magazine — you can never tell when your 

 milk trade will be blown up and put you out of business, by 

 some epidemic, unless you have it pasteurized, because dis- 

 eases will crop out, and the milk may be found to be the cause 

 of the disease. Now, the farmer ought to want the dealer to 

 pasteurize his milk. For the future of the milk market, he 

 ought to want the people of Portland, Boston, New York and 

 other cities to use two quarts where they used only one before, 

 and for that reason they should encourage the pasteurization 

 of milk. 



Farmers for years have said it was unjust for a farmer to 

 have a herd of Jersey cows and bring milk to the creamery with 

 five per cent of butter fat, and get no more for his product than 

 the farmer whose milk has only three per cent. At last the 

 farmers are getting justice, because stations are paying pre- 

 miums for butter fat. It is true that there is just as much 

 difference in the sanitary condition of the milk as there is in 

 the butter fat. One man brings clean milk and another brings 

 dirty milk. The man who takes pains gets no more for his 

 milk than the one who brings dirty milk. Is it not a business 

 proposition to make cleanliness an object? The producer is 

 making a great mistake when he opposes testing for bacteria. 

 By testing milk we find out whether the milk is clean or not, 

 and then we can use a sliding scale by which the farmer is 

 paid, not only according to the butter fat basis, but also on the 

 bacteria count. It seems to me that the farmer who opposes 

 it is taking action against his own interests. The farmer who 

 attaches a label, saying that his milk has been tested and is 

 clean, ought to get more for his milk ; otherwise there is no way 

 in which people can tell whether they are getting clean milk or 

 not. We should have clean milk labeled, so that it can be dis- 

 tinguished ; and when people see a big letter "A" on the milk 

 cap, it means milk worth ten cents, and you have established a 

 market for extra good milk. We should overcome the opposi- 

 tion to bacteria testing and grading. 



Question : I am selling milk in a certain city in this state, 

 where the bacteriologist, in an address a short time ago, made 

 this statement : That the farmers of the country were selling 



