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stable with milking cows. Daily bacterial tests were made of the 

 milk from this barn for over one year. Nothing was done in the 

 way of ecjuipment and it received no attention excepting the 

 regular trips of the man with the wheelbarrow load of sterile 

 cans and milking pails which occurred twice daily at milking 

 time. All of the milk was, of course, cooled and bottled at the 

 sanitary dairy house. Below is a tabulation of the averages for 

 each month of the daily tests of milk fi'oni the sanitary dairy 

 barn and from the old barn for one year: 



Date Sanitary barn Old ba' n 



1903. 



September 660 1, 950 



October 354 331 



November 287 425 



December 505 457 



1904. 



January 355 1. 244 



February 1. 721 3.910 



March 690 4. 200 



April 3.300 4.600 



:May 1 , 950 10. 200 



June 550 1, 900 



July 1.260 3,500 



August 1.534 4.610 



Average 1. 097 3, 102 



The standard number of bacteria allowable in certified milk is 

 10,000 per cubic centimeter, consequently, the milk from this old 

 cow stable was well within the limits for certified milk. The old 

 dairy barn was considerably worse in external and internal ap- 

 pearance than the barns of the majority of dairy farm^ in the 

 neighborhood of my own farm. It da\\med upon me that if my 

 old barn could be used for the production of clean milk merely by 

 becoming allied to my sanitary dairy house through the daily trips 

 (if the wheelbarrow, that clean milk could be produced in any 

 dairy bam by l)ringing about the same alliance. 



The machinery and equipment and the force of men at the cen- 

 tral dairy house under the superintendence of a sanitary expert 

 were capable of handling ten to twenty times as much milk as was 

 produced on my own farm. My sterilizer could sterilize pails and 



