402 BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. [Pub. Doc. 



The creameries, milk rooms, vats, etc., will be either of tile or 

 porcelain lining ; apparatus for sterilizing and pasteurizing milk 

 will have to be purchased ; all milk will be certified, and nothing- 

 sold except in glass jars ; every concern will employ a graduated 

 chemist and a veterinary surgeon. Milk stores will be veritable 

 crystal palaces, compared with the ones in use to-day, and all the 

 employees will be uniformed, and compelled to undergo a civil 

 service examination once a year. More advance will be made on 

 this line in the next ten years than has been made in the past fifty 

 years. A complete revolution is coming. Almost the same 

 progress will be made on the dairy farms among the men who 

 produce the milk. The production, care and handling of milk is 

 receiving more attention to-day from all classes than ever before in 

 our history. 



The above paragraph was written and published without 

 any knowledge of the new building in this city ; but it may 

 be that Boston will be able to show the world substantial 

 progress along the lines indicated in the above paragraph 

 much sooner than the writer of it anticipated. 



Early in the year a study of the condition of cans returned 

 to the farmers was undertaken, in connection with the Milk 

 Producers' Union. Shipping tags were provided for the 

 members of the union, and a circular sent them, announcing 

 that all cans received by them in an unduly filthy condition 

 could be sent by express to the executive officer of the Dairy 

 Bureau for inspection and report. This brought out only 

 20 cans in three months. The number was much less than 

 we had supposed would be sent, but the nauseating filthiness 

 of those which were returned made up for lack of number, — 

 rotten curd, putrefying slime, rotten eggs, kerosene oil and 

 human excrement were among the ingredients, while the 

 odors beggared description. 



Outside or Boston. 



In the other cities and in the larger towns the milk supply 

 has in the main been large, and prices weak during the year. 

 In Boston the peculiarity of the wholesale system is such 

 that the wholesalers keep the surplus milk off the market, 

 manufacturing it into butter. This has a great influence in 

 steadying the retail market, and in reducing to the lowest 



