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receives, the degree of cleanliness she is kept in, 

 and in the treatment given at the hands of the dairy- 

 man. 



As villages grew into towns and towns into cities 

 there would be found everywhere a class of people 

 that offered encouragement to the maintaining of 

 one or more dairies in close vicinity to the urban popu- 

 lation. In many of the larger cities of the old conti- 

 nent dairy establishments had been maintained ever 

 since the beginning of the present century, and, 

 although they did not furnish anything else but 

 raw milk, such as was drawn from the cows, yet the 

 choice feeding and cleanliness practiced by these 

 dairies, which were under the daily inspection of the 

 patrons, insured a degree of confidence in the pure- 

 ness of the product which allowed the dairyman to 

 charge such prices for his milk as would liberally re- 

 imburse him for the extra outlay encountered. Con- 

 ditions allied to the mammoth growth of our modern 

 cities made it, however, impossible to increase the 

 number of these useful establishments, or even to 

 prolong the existence of the old ones. The high 

 value of building lots on one side, the hygienic ob- 

 jections to the accummulation of manure and the 

 difficulty to dispose of this valuable residue at a profit 

 on the other, have made these dairies disappear. The 

 control of quality of the milk that was then exercised 

 by the patrons now passed into the hands of the 

 health authorities and the police, and was extended 

 to all milk furnished for consumption, and it seemed 



