THE NEW EARTH 



without the investment or the expenditure of 

 a single dollar." 



" It should be distinctly understood," the 

 bulletin continues, "that the writers do not fa- 

 vor an excessive amount of moisture in butter, 

 but since the world's best commercial and 

 scientific butter judges, when viewed by them 

 from the consumer's as well as from the pro- 

 ducer's standpoint, have fixed the maximum 

 standard of moisture in good butter to be six- 

 teen per cent, it is a matter of business for the 

 producers to come as near to this standard as 

 possible." 



The studies in bacteria as they relate to 

 milk have been exhaustive, and many inter- 

 esting developments have followed. One in- 

 vestigator, noting the size of the bacteria that 

 appear in milk, says that if they could be 

 increased to the size of baseballs, and a man 

 should be increased in the same proportion, he 

 would stand over fifty miles high. 



When the milk lies in the udder of the 

 healthy cow, it is germ-free, but the moment 

 it is exposed to the air there is danger of con- 

 tamination in a thousand and one ways, for 

 the bacteria abound in air, earth and water. 



192 



