No. 6. DEPARTMENT OP AGRICULTURE. 715 



PAPERS READ AT THE SEVENTH ANNUAL 

 MEETING OF THE PENNSYLVANIA DAIRY 

 UNION, HELD AT THE MONONGAHELA 

 HOUSE, PITTSBURG, PA., JANUARY 17, 1906. 



OFFICERS FOR 190G. 



PRESIDENT. 

 PROF. H. E. VAN NORMAN, State College. 



VICE PRESIDENT. 

 THOMAS SHARPLESS, West Chester. 



SECRETARY. 

 W. E. PERHAM, Niagara. 



TREASURER. 

 M. E. REEDER, Muncy. 



BOARD OP DIRECTORS. 



J. H. REICHERT, Scranton. 



M. C. SHOEMAKER, Greensburg. 



H. W. COMFORT, Fallsington. 



REV. J. D. DETRICH, West Chester. 



HENRY PALMER, Avondale. 



CITY MILK SUPPLY. 



By MR. C. M. BAILEY, Manager, MrJunkin-Straui'it Dairy Co., Pittsburg. 



There is no article of food which is so universally used from in- 

 fancy to old age, and upon which so much dependence is placed by 

 the strong and weak alike, as pure milk. When we consider that 

 it is the only food that will, within itself, sustain life for an in- 

 definite period, and that in thousands of cases it is depended upon 

 entirely to nurse the weak and suffering back to health and 

 strength, we arrive at some idea of the importance of a pure milk 

 supply for our cities. 



Of late years a demand for a pure milk supply has developed 

 among physicians, and those laymen who have given the matter 

 the thought that it deserves, and, as is always the case where there 



