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milk supply by which economy may be practiced so a& to al- 

 low the farmers a sufficiently higher price to enable them to 

 introduce a better system, without raising the price to the con- 

 sumers. Granted that the consumers are willing to pay 8 cents 

 .per quart for sanitary milk, the distributors can afford to pay 

 4 cents on the platform at the city end of the railroad, which 

 would leave ample margin for the farmers to make the im- 

 provements suggested. Four cents is plenty to pay for the 

 distribution. Let the distributers combine so as to have one 

 wagon attend to certain streets where heretofore three or five 

 have scrambled for the business. This item of saving alone 

 is more than sufficient to allow for the improvements at the 

 barn. Or, still better, let the farmers combine and take tho 

 distribution into their own hands. 



In this brief article, however, I shall not attempt to go 

 further into this matter. Suffice it here to say that from 

 any point of view, practical or economical, there can be no 

 serious objection to the above suggestions, viz.: to "milk in 

 the parlor" and to let the milk flow directly from the cow over 

 a cooler, at once reducing the temperature to near the freezing 

 point. And there can be no question but that this would 

 be an enormous step in advance for the production of sani- 

 tary milk for the city supply." 



J. D. FREDERIKSEN. 



Little Falls, N. Y., June 1, 1901. 



I am not expecting the average milk producer to attain 

 these high standards, but even one cent extra per quart will 

 enable the farmer to take some of the most important steps 

 towards sanitary milk so as to enable the milk shipping cream- 

 eries to get the full benefit of pasteurizing or freezing. 



A HINT FOR CITY CONTROL. 



Two-thirds of the milk sold is sold by tickets and the cus- 

 tomers seldom see the peddlers. Compel them to print on 

 these tickets whether the milk is new, skimmed- or half 

 skimmed (if the latter grade is allowed). Or better still- 

 let them print the minimum percentage of fat which they will 

 guarantee. 



