910 New York 'State Dairymen's Association 



domaiul for clean milk, for milk from tuberculin tested cows, 

 for milk produced in high-scoring barns, and all this, but we 

 rarely bear that the consumer is willing to pay one and one-half 

 or two cents a quart more for tbis milk because it does come from 

 such cows, housed in such a barn. But rather, the man who 

 prides himself in his business enough to produce a high-grade 

 article is compelled under existing conditions to accept the same 

 price for his product that the low-grade dairyman gets. In other 

 words, the slovenly, unclean methods of about 10 per cent, of the 

 dairymen work hardship to the entire business by lowering the 

 grade of all milk collected at that factory, creamery or shipping 

 station ; because in most cases all milk delivered is run together 

 in one vat, and even if it is 85 or 90 per cent, good milk and 10 

 per cent, low-grade and dirty milk, it makes a pretty poor medium 

 when mixed together. At least it is of such a quality that it 

 cannot be sold in our large cities unless pasteurized, which makes 

 it grade B milk, while at least part of it would score much better 

 were it kept separate from the small per cent, of dirty milk taken 

 in. 



Do not understand me to say that I do not think this mixed 

 milk needs to be pasteurized before using it for food. I know it 

 does. I have seen some drawn to factories that I would want 

 boiled for a week before I would feed it to my calves, but what 

 I object to is mixing the clean milk with that dirty stuff and 

 making it all dirty. 



In this I believe the men who operate the factories and ship- 

 ping stations are somewhat to blame. Xo milk is too dirty to be 

 accepted at some plants. If one factory refuses it, another takes 

 it in and the owner congratulates himself on having secured 

 another patron. This condition is especially true at this par- 

 ticular season of the year when dealers are short of milk. Any 

 kind of a barn and all kinds of cows are good enough when milk 

 is scarce, and the milk from dirty cows kept in a dirty barn and 

 delivered to the factory in dirty cans, is as acceptable as milk 

 from a $10,000 barn and groomed cows, where small-top pails 

 are used and every care taken to produce the highest possible 

 grade of milk ; and all of it is mixed together as soon as it reaches 

 the shipping station. 



