No. 4.] SANITARY MILK. 77 



Dr. JSToRTir. This milk is retailed at 10 cents a quart in 

 the city ; the ordinary milk is retailed at 9 cents. 



Mr. A. J. PiEKPONT. How do you get the pails from the 

 different places to the station? 



Dr. North. All of our pails and cans have tin covers 

 which fit tightly. Each farmer, when he drives up to the 

 sterilizing station in the morning, goes to the first door, 

 where he unloads his milk and also the dirty pails and cans, 

 and then goes on to the next door and gets a new load of clean 

 pails and cans to take home. He gets a double set of pails at 

 each daily trip. 



Mr. PiEKPONT. Do you use milking suits ? 



Dr. ISToRTir. Suits are a good thing theoretically, but 

 practically they have nothing to do with clean milk produc- 

 tion. 



, Mr. PiERPONT. What is the construction of these barns 

 or stables ? 



Dr. North. I had some health inspectors from the city 

 and men from the State around there, and they scored all 

 these farms and then handed in the scores to me. You know 

 they are based on 100 per cent ; the lowest was 40 per cent, 

 and I think the highest man I had was 75 per cent. The 

 man who scored 40 per cent won first prize that month for 

 low bacteria count. 



I want to add one thing. All the milk had to be below 

 10,000 in bacterial count. My foreman reported that when 

 he got them down to that number he could not get them any 

 lower. So I offered monthly a first prize of $40 to the man 

 with the lowest count. Immediately the count dropped into 

 the hundreds, and a man whose miJk formerly showed a 

 count of millions dropped to hundreds in this short while. 

 The theory, then, that the farm which scores the best will 

 give the smallest bacteria count does not always work out 

 in practice, although I would not minimize the score, for it 

 is a good thing to have all the sanitary equipment you can 

 afford. Simply to score these farms will give you no idea 

 of the excellence of the milk, but if you score the men them- 

 selves on their intelligence and care you will find the bac- 

 teria in almost exact order. The reason this man's farm 



