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when the health authorities, dairy farmers, milk dealers and 

 consumers will all work together for a wholesome milk sup- 

 ply. Such a working arrangement is not impossible at the 

 present time in some of our cities. To accomplish this, the 

 dirty dairies will need to be brought up to a reasonable sani- 

 tary condition, the health authorities asking for nothing un- 

 reasonable. The dairyman should be protected from unfair 

 prosecution, and from the competition of dirty milk, which 

 now sells for the same price as clean milk in most instances. 

 The interests of the public and the dairyman are one, and 

 just as soon as they can be made to see this, many of the 

 present difficulties in the clean-milk crusade will disappear. 

 What most of us need is not more dairy knowledge, but a 

 better application of that we already have. 



Question. "What is the best usage in regard to utensils, 

 — in regard to the open pail ? I understand some producers 

 who produce an extra quality of milk, certified milk, use in 

 preference an open pail, on account of milking into a covered 

 pail through a strainer, and the inevitable spray which results 

 and goes upon the bands and clothing of the milkers. 



Mr. Lane. That is a good question. Some of the certified 

 milk producers do use an open pail, but they always use a 

 small-top milk pail. There are several very good types of 

 those in the market. Some of the certified milk producers, 

 it is true, don't use any strainer in the small-top pail. This 

 pail is very often used open, but it only has a diameter of 

 about 8 inches across the top ; and if your dairy is clean, 

 and your cows and pail and everything is clean, there is no 

 particular advantage of having a strainer on the pail in the 

 stable, because if there is no strainer the milker is a little 

 more careful in milking, and if there is a strainer and any 

 particle of dirt gets on it, of course it is washed right through 

 just the same. 



Mr. George Albee (of Concord). The intelligent farm- 

 ers in Massachusetts are, I think, most of them, of the opinion 

 that dirty milk should not be allowed to be sold at any price. 



Mr. Lane. I think I have indicated this afternoon that 

 the dairyman as a rule is coming to have the right view of 



