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such surplus as the society cannot profitably dispose of is 

 pasteurised or put into cold storage, and held over until the 

 following day, or is separated if there should be at the time 

 an outlet for cream. 



In 1909 the society, in order to overcome the difficulty 

 caused by a great surplus of milk on the market during the 

 months of May and June, acquired a cheese-making plant at 

 Bilsden, converting there into cheese, in that year, 11,223 

 gallons of milk which otherwise might have increased the 

 glut of milk in London and have affected prices accordingly. 

 The society has also bought some land close to Ongar 

 station, and built on it a milk depot and cheese factory 

 having facilities for dealing with 1,000 imperial gallons daily. 



The Wensleydale (Yorkshire) Pure Milk Society was 

 formed in 1905, on the model of the Copenhagen Pure Milk 

 Company, for the supply of pure milk to the principal towns 

 in the North of England. The contracts made by the 

 society with its members are based on a number of conditions 

 in regard to feeding, milking and general arrangements 

 which are rigidly enforced with a view to ensuring absolute 

 purity and wholesomeness of the milk, while the cows of 

 the farmers supplying the milk must be certified by the 

 society's inspector. Delivered at the society's depot at 

 Northallerton, immediately adjoining the lines of the North 

 Eastern Railway Company, which has done much to foster 

 the scheme, the milk is first scrupulously tested, being 

 rejected if the quality should be unsatisfactory. It is then 

 subjected to various processes, bottled, and so sent out to 

 the consumer, the bottles, each labelled with a different 

 coloured label for each day in the week, being packed in 

 crates and conveyed to their destination in improved vans 

 specially constructed by the North Eastern Railway Com- 

 pany for the purpose. In 1908 the society installed at its 

 depot new machinery which has been found most effective 

 and economical. It deals with about 400,000 gallons of 

 milk a year, and has a turnover of between 20,000 and 

 25,000. 



The Scalford (Leicestershire) Dairy Society, Ltd., which is 



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