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duly corked and sealed, the filled bottles, which are 

 sterilised every day, are removed in specially con- 

 structed boxes. These cream bottles contain half a 

 pint, but those for infant milk hold a quart. 



In another room milk was being separated by 

 steam-driven Alfa separators, the cream flowing over 

 cylinders filled with ice and leaving them at a 

 temperature of 35 Fahrenheit. The "half" skim 

 milk, containing three-fourths per cent, of butter-fat, is 

 similarly cooled by running it over a larger cylinder. 

 This is sold at half the price of the whole milk. 



In another department the infant milk was being 

 bottled. This is all milked on to ice at the farms. 

 I saw a specimen of the pails used, which were, I 

 believe, invented by Mr. Busck. In the bottom of 

 these is a cavity designed to contain a ball of ice 

 mixed with salt, on to which the milk falls as it 

 comes from the cow. These pails are supplied to 

 the various contract farms. 



What I can best describe as wire cruet-stands, 

 such as we use for oil, vinegar, and Worcester sauce, 

 are sent out by the company, each stand holding 

 from six to ten bottles. Through the help of another 

 society these stands of bottles are sold to the poor 

 for 15 ore, or about twopence. Each of them holds 

 sufficient milk to feed a child for twenty-four hours. 

 The younger the child the more bottles there are in 

 the cruet-stand, as it must be fed more frequently. 

 All that need be done by the nurse or mother is to 

 set a bottle from the cruet into tepid water, and when 

 it is sufficiently warm, to fix on an india-rubber teat 

 and give it to the infant. Special boxes are provided 

 in which these cruets can be sent, sealed and packed 

 in ice, all over Denmark, and if thus treated they 



