No. 4.] REPORT OF DAIRY BUREAU. 335 



Educational. 



As has already been intimated, the Bureau is doing what 

 it can to educate towards the production of clean milk, to 

 better methods of handling, and to a better care of milk 

 and its products in the hands of the purchaser. We have 

 endeavored to lose no opportunity to enforce this idea upon 

 the public. We believe there is improvement year by year, 

 but recognize that there is room for more. 



The producer naturally thinks that, if he could get a 

 better price for his milk product, he could then aiford to 

 take more pains with it, which is undoubtedly true ; and the 

 consumer owes it to himself, to his family and to the wel- 

 fare of everybody, not so much to question the price of 

 milk and cream, witliin certain limits, as to insist upon its 

 quality and condition. No one ought to expect milk con- 

 taining 5 per cent fat for the same price as that containing 

 3.7 per cent fat. The producer ought to be able to sell his 

 milk on its merits, just the same as the dry goods merchant 

 does his cloth ; and this should apply to freedom from 

 deleterious bacteria, as well as to fat content. It seems as 

 though an adjustment of prices along this line would assure 

 to the consumer clean milk, and give the producer encourage- 

 ment to produce better goods, and also a fair remuneration 

 for his labor. 



At the same time, it should be recognized that there is 

 more than one way to increase income ; and that clean milk, 

 clean cream and first-class butter or cheese will increase 

 consumption, and thereby enlarge the market for these most 

 desirable articles of food. Many a business man has suc- 

 ceeded by increasing his production to a paying point 

 without increasing the price. 



Habits of cleanliness are not so expensive as they are 

 hard to form ; but, when once formed, it is believed that 

 they pay for themselves in one's increased standing, repu- 

 tation, improved physical health, mental power and moral 

 worth ; all of which contribute not only to happiness, but 

 increase earning power as well. 



Much of the cream brought into our market to-day comes 



