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We have seen many wagons labelled "sanitary milk." Upon ex- 

 amining this milk, and seeing the manure settled in the bottom 

 of the bottle, reminds us of a woman (who, attempting to remedy 

 this, put two pitchers on the porch, and when the milk man came 

 along and asked the lady if she wanted two quarts of milk, she said 

 "no," one would do; but if it didn't make any difference to him, he 

 could put the milk in one pitcher and the manure in the other. 

 The above incident did not occur in our own State, but we, as in- 

 dividuals, are daily eating our portion of the 1,000 pounds of 

 manure as a part' of each day's rations consumed by the good people 

 of Missouri. Now, good people, don't get scared; you must eat 

 your peck of dirt, and some say it might as well be in the milk. 



It has been our lot to visit city dairies where, from all appear- 

 ance, the cows are chained to the same post month after month 

 with no sunshine and very little pure air, and the filthy condition 

 of these stables make it impossible to produce a clean milk 

 therein, and I wish to add that the bad conditions are not all found 

 in large cities. Often the cows in the country stand and lay in their 

 filth, uncleansed or unwashed, before milking, buckets smelling, 

 etc., and more often the lack of elbow grease than more parapher- 

 nalia. There is a class who look upon us as their enemies, and 

 when they learn we are in town, will leave their routes, scurry to 

 their dens, leaving their patrons unsupplied with milk. It is these 

 people who are the transgressors of the law, and it seems their 

 desire is to evade, rather than obey it. It is not the ignorant dairy- 

 man who adulterates and uses preservatives, as a general rule, but 

 the man who is fairly well posted. He does it for the almighty 

 dollar, regardless of results. 



Nor can we, in doing our duty, pass unnoticed one other line — 

 that of tuberculosis. It has been our observation that many prefer 

 to go on distributing these death-dealing germs, rather than lose 

 the paltry sum that these diseased animals are worth, and when 

 the matter is brought to their attention, their cry is, "why don't 

 the State pay for these animals?" never stopping to think of the 

 number of human deaths this germ-laden milk will cause. 



It is this same class of people or dairymen who avoid the pure 

 food men, and, when finally cornered, stand sullenly by, and act as 

 if we were the culprits, and they the offended ones, and even then 

 try to cover up, deceive and excuse, and after being shown — we 

 show in Missouri — will twist, pervert and misrepresent when we 

 are gone. And allow me to say, the number in this class is larger 

 than one would suppose. I have been taken for a doctor, preacher, 



