No. 4.] MILK SUPPLY OF CITIES. 87 



would be willing to tell what car that was that ran below 

 the standard. 



Mr. Whitaker. I do not know as it would do any good 

 for me to advertise a community unfavorably. I thought 

 there would be no harm in advertising Brookfield favorably, 

 for it carries out the fact I mentioned before, that indi- 

 viduality in cows has very largely to do with the quality of 

 milk. 



Mr. Harwood. We had a co-operative creamery in our 

 town, and a great deal of the milk formerly went to the 

 creamery. While we were comparing the work of the 

 creamery with that of others in the State, we found that it 

 ranked higher than some. Many farmers got it in their 

 minds that there was something in their grass or soil that 

 would make a better quality of milk than was made in 

 some other sections. That was $ne thing I had in mind 

 when I asked for the name of the place that sent in the 

 inferior milk. 



Mr. Chas. E. Ward (of Buckland). I live in a section 

 where we are just changing from a creamery to selling 

 milk, and our experience leads me to confirm one part of 

 Mr. Whitaker's statement, and also backs up his claim for 

 the milk standard. In our locality we were all butter 

 farmers ; but the milk car commenced to go through about 

 two years ago, and now it is picking up quite a little milk, 

 and I have noticed among our farmers an increased disposi- 

 tion to abandon all their former nice rich animals. I believe 

 they would turn their cows into pumps unless there was 

 some standard to keep them in check. The milk brought 

 19 cents per can at the station, and the farmers had to pay 

 2 cents per can to get it to the station, leaving them about 2 

 cents per quart. I do not suppose that they could afford to 

 keep up the standard of Jersey cows and sell milk ; but the 

 tendency will be to go clear to the other extreme, unless 

 there is legislation to keep it in check. One question I 

 want to ask : I understood Mr. Whitaker to say that milk 

 of to-day would not reach Boston until some time to- 

 morrow. 



Mr. Whitaker. You know better than I do about the 



