No. 4.] SANITARY MILK. 65 



THE PRODUCTION OF SANITARY MILK BY OUR 

 PRESENT MILK PRODUCERS. 



BY CHAKLES E. NORTH, M.D., NEW YORK, N. Y. 



The widespread agitation on the milk question which has 

 been taking place recently, particularly among persons living in 

 large cities, may be summed up by saying that there is a growing 

 demand for milk of better character. The improvement desired 

 is one which relates especially to the sanitary characteristics 

 of milk. Sanitarians are demanding milk from healthy cows. 

 In some quarters this demand insists upon the tuberculin test- 

 ing of dairy cows. In all quarters the demand calls for some 

 control over the numbers of bacteria in milk. The demand 

 includes the prevention of the transmission of infectious dis- 

 eases through milk, both by control of the health of the dairy 

 employees, and, on the part of many persons, by pasteuriza- 

 tion. No one who studies the agitation which is taking place 

 on these matters can deny that it is a serious one, and that it 

 must be admitted that great fundamental changes must soon 

 take place in the milk industry as a whole to satisfy these 

 demands. 



Our dairy farmers who are the producers of this milk may well 

 feel uneasy and considerably alarmed for the reason that these 

 changes directly affect their business prosperity. The dairy 

 farmer must know just what the character of the milk of the 

 future is to be, and what system of control is to be exercised 

 over him, in order that he may decide whether dairying as an 

 industry is to be a business in which it is profitable for him to 

 remain. The character of the milk demanded in some quarters 

 is so high that it has already been suggested that our present 



