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milk producers are incapable of furnishing such milk, and that 

 the milk of the future must be produced by another class of 

 men, — men possessed of more capital and with more scientific 

 training, and working their farming and dairy processes on a 

 much larger scale. 



It is my personal belief that milk having a sanitary character 

 which satisfies the highest demands of public health ex})erts can 

 be produced by our present milk producers. This belief is not 

 mere guesswork on my part, but is based on the actual perform- 

 ance of the work by a group of dairy farmers who have been 

 producing such milk under my personal supervision during the 

 past year. 



In considering the characteristics of sanitary milk, and 

 the measures which must be practiced in its production and 

 handling, it is well to look for a moment at certified milk and 

 the methods of certified milk production. All of us must pay 

 our respects and make our acknowledgments to the medical 

 milk commissions and to certified milk because of the ideals 

 which the certified milk movement has established in the minds 

 of all who are interested in milk improvement. Certified milk 

 is without question the ideal milk. The degree of sanitary per- 

 fection practiced in its production and handling furnishes a 

 continual object lesson to milk producers and milk dealers. In 

 the tabulation below is a statement of the more important 

 sanitary measures demanded by medical milk commissions for 

 the production of certified milk. 



Certified Method. 

 What the Farmer does. 

 *1. Water supply pure. 



2. Stable, 1 story. 



3. Stable, cubic feet air space. 



4. Stable, square feet window space. 



5. Stable, ventilation. 



6. Stable, drainage. 



7. Stable, walls tight and smooth. 



8. Stable, ceiling tight and smooth. 



9. Stable, floors tight and smooth. 



10. Stable, stall space. 



11. Stable, gutters. 



12. Stable, closed to children, etc. 



