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the price of milk and improving the business generally — that the 

 following regulations should be enforced. 



Every cow on the farm of this Association was to be subjected 

 to a fortnightly inspection by a veterinary surgeon, who was to 

 report on cleanliness, quality of feeding and general treatment as 

 well as on any disease from which the animal might be suffering. 

 The farmers were to cool the milk immediately after milking to 

 41 degrees F., and it must have a temperature not more than 50 

 degrees F., when it reached Copenhagen or it was rejected, and to 

 provide for this 30 lbs. of ice were to be kept in stock for every 11 

 gallons of milk produced. 



After it arrived in Copenhagen, the milk was all sampled and 

 tested chemically and bacteriologically filtered, run off and bottled, 

 but even then the care did not cease. The milk carts were so con- 

 structed that there could be no tampering with the milk, as every 

 can and every barn door was sealed and the cans then covered by 

 ice in hot weather. Every milkman was in uniform, and the trade 

 mark of the Association, a red and white clover blossom with green 

 leaf on a black rectangle painted on a white ground, was on every 

 van. 



The skimmed milk was sold at a very low price, and was a 

 Godsend to the poor who recognize what our people seem to forget, 

 that skimmed milk is the most nourishing article of food that can 

 possibly be obtained for the price for which it can be sold, 2 1-2 

 cents per quart. 



Two other facts are of especial worth in this Association ; the 

 farmers were bound by their contract to report at once any case 

 of sickness among either herd or workmen, and to refrain from 

 using milk from a suspected cow and to isolate any workman who 

 might be ill or have sickness in his family. 



In return for this, the Association agreed to pay full price for 

 all such milk and full wages to the workman while he laid off, so 

 that there was absolutely no reason for deception. In addition to 

 all this, there were regular dairy maid inspectors who supplemented 

 the work of the veterinarian and medical inspectors, who looked 

 after the health of the employed. 



Yes, ideal, I hear you say, but does not all this so increase the 

 cost that the price of milk is beyond the average customer, as it is 

 with some certified dairy milk in this country? 



In Copenhagen today, whole milk brings 20 cents per gallon; 

 infants' milk brings 25 cents per gallon; half skimmed milk 10 

 cents per gallon; cream, No. 1, $1.25 per gallon; and cream No. 2, 



