CHAPTER V. 

 MILK FOR CITY CONSUMPTION. 



IT does not come within the range of this work to treat 

 this subject exhaustively. I cannot refrain, however, from 

 referring to certain phases of it, since we may then learn 

 the manner in which milk is usually kept when intended 

 for direct consumption, and will have an opportunity to ex- 

 plain the causes of some difficulties which city people meet 

 in their efforts to keep milk sweet. The treatment of the 

 milk before it comes to the household plays, of course, an im- 

 portant part as regards the question of its keeping quality, 

 as may be inferred from the preceding. I want to impress 

 on housekeepers, first of all, that they must not buy milk 

 blindly : they themselves should investigate the conditions 

 on the farm where the milk used in their household is 

 produced. This is easily done where the milk is obtained 

 from a farm in the town where they reside; but even if the 

 milk comes from the country they should not neglect to 

 inform themselves concerning the conditions of cleanliness 

 in the stable. This is above all necessary to insure one's 

 self against the spreading of contagion through the milk, a 

 danger which has not been treated in this book, but which 

 cannot be disregarded. Such an investigation is the only 

 way in which a housewife can protect herself against ob- 

 taining unclean milk. If the milk-producers were under 



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