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price. Such milk always brings the highest market price. 

 No money was lost after the first year. A mortgage of $7,500 

 was paid from the profits of the place, and from last ac- 

 counts, though the work was all done by hired help, the owner 

 was clearing about $1,200 a year. A practice which prevails 

 on this farm, and upon all others which are conducted along 

 most modern lines, is that the cows are never spoken to in a 

 loud or harsh manner, and a helper who was known to have 

 struck a cow would be discharged without delay. Milkers go 

 to their work with clean hands and in clean clothes, often 

 of white duck. Udders and teats are carefully sponged off 

 before a hand is laid upon them. The milk being drawn is 

 immediately run through a cooler, whence it is canned and 

 forwarded to the city. 



In a Government report of the year of grace 1905 regard- 

 ing the milk supply of twenty-nine Southern cities, it is stated 

 that Richmond is the only place south of the Potomac River 

 with a milk supply handled in any manner similar to that of 

 the large cities of the North. Large quantities of condensed 

 milk are shipped in from the Northern centers of this industry, 

 and not only consumed as a common household article, but 

 babies and invalids are often fed upon it by medical advice, 

 many young doctors being surprised to learn that this practice 

 is unknown at the North and often severely condemned. It is 

 recognized that the milk supplied to the cities of the South, if 

 used as an article of diet by persons in delicate health or as a 

 food for young children, would be only too apt to result disas- 

 trously, and the people in general seem to feel that their milk 

 supply is neither trustworthy in quality nor reliable as to its 

 delivery. This feeling is reflected in the small amount which 

 they consume. While the average daily consumption of milk 



