No. 4.] SANITARY MILK. 81 



Dr. ]S[oRTii. We run it over a big mechanical cooler. One 

 of our men — the fellow who scored 40 per cent — hasn't 

 got any dairy house at all, or any place in which to cool 

 his milk. He has a barn with a ceiling so low that I can't 

 stand up straight. He wanted to go into this business, and 

 asked me if he put an old horse trough in front of his ])arn, 

 and put in cakes of ice for a cooler, whether that would do, 

 and I told him it would. That is one reason his premises 

 didn't score any higher, but he took first prize for low bac- 

 teria count. 



Mr. Daniels. Does a man strain it right into a can with 

 ice around the can, or over a cooler ? 



Dr. J^ORTH. We don't allow our dairy farmers to use any 

 coolers or any strainers. When they get the idea of clean 

 milk into their heads, they feel it an insult to the milk and 

 to them to have it strained. When we receive the milk we 

 run the entire 600 quarts through sterilized cheese cloth and 

 cotton, and there is hardly anything in it. When you try 

 milking in a small-mouthed pail and keep your cow's udder 

 clean, you will find nothing in the milk, and it increases your 

 price $20 a month. 



Pres. K. L. Buttekfiet.d (Amherst). What type of or- 

 ganization is possible for supporting this method of co-oper- 

 ative sterilizing, supposing the farmers want to take it up 

 themselves ? 



Dr. ISToETir. Quite a number of queries have reached me 

 along that line from dairy farmers and large milk dealers, 

 and from boards of health and civic associations, who say 

 they want such milk. In order to organize such a scheme 

 you can either start by getting some big dealer interested, or 

 by locating a group of dairy farmers who will produce this 

 milk. ISTow, if you can get some people in the city to say 

 they would rather pay 10 cents for clean milk than 15 for 

 certified milk, the problem is solved. In ISTew York city we 

 are running the 15-cent milk out of business. There are 

 plenty of dairy farmers who are capable of producing such 

 milk and winning the premiums; and the majority of the 

 farmers now admit that it doesn't cost any more to keep 

 things clean and milk into a pail with a small hole, while 



