55 



named in the East, close to the railroad station. If the farmers can 

 secure the right man to manage such a milk depot (as I should prefer 

 to call it) so much the better, if not let them encourage private indi- 

 viduals to take hold of the matter 



These depots should be built like the German creamery ( see 

 page 74) and be provided with machinery for butter-makiiig and for 

 pasteurizing the milk. If the farmers would treat the milk in the 

 same careful manner as suggested when they peddle it themselves, it 

 will be an easy matter to eliminate all losses by sour milk and yet use 

 no chemical preservatives. 



I believe it would pay well to run it all through a separator 

 (through the cream tube only) in order to clean it. This is even 

 better than filtering as it is done by the large European milk dealers. 

 For this purpose the old Danish Weston machine is specially adapted 

 unless indeed the centrifugal heater can be run sufficiently high 

 speed to do the work thoroughly. 



Surplus milk or cream can be made into butter or cheese, 

 and pasteurized skimmilk sold under its own name at a reasonable 

 price, would be a blessing to the city people and a profit to the far- 

 mers. 



Such depots having large quantities of milk under their control 

 can always command a better price. 



If milk enough to secure a carload at one place can be secured, I 

 believe bottled milk can be shipped for the same price as that in 

 cans. 



Possibly the German plan of heating the milk at the shipping 

 point and ship it in large tanks where the temperature could be main- 

 tained, and then cooling it in sterilized bottles on arrival at the city, 

 may be found practical though I have my doubts as to the cold 

 season. 



Whatever plan is adopted I consider this idea that the farmers 

 themselves see to it that the milk has a better keeping quality as the 

 first step in true co-operation, and when this is first obtained in a sys- 

 tem of milk depots along the railroad lines leading to the great cities, 

 then and not till then, can there be any hope of further co-operation 

 in the retail business. 



Finally let me urge upon the farmers to remember that such de- 

 pots should not be considered as temporary makeshifts, but be built 



