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the farmer's wife is more than ghid to bo relieved of the 

 washing- of ])ails and cans. The only addcMl expense is the 

 tuberculin test and this must be met. 



jMr. lioBixsoN. I would like to ask how much it would 

 cost to establish a sterilizing station ? 



Dr. NoKTii. In establishing this station we naturally 

 wanted to do the thing in first-class style. We bought an 

 old, abandoned creamery, paid about $2,000 for it, spent 

 $C),000 upon the buildings, and it scored 100 per cent when 

 done, the highest in the State ; that was because we wanted to 

 make it an advertisement for the business. But I believe 

 for very much less money than that a plant could be started, 

 and my opinion is for about $3,000 or $4,000 from the 

 ground up a plant could be equipped and fitted to handle 

 this thing. We cut out all fancy things and cling only to 

 the things that give results. 



Mr. J. J. Ekwin (Wayland). How far are you from the 

 city of New York ? 



Dr. XoRTK. I felt when I started this movement that, if 

 I located near Xew York, the people would say, " You have 

 extra good shipping facilities." So I went 300 miles away 

 in Cortland County, so that when the milk gets to the city, 

 the night's milk is thirty-six hours old and the morning's 

 twenty-four hours old. I think the milk averaged during 

 August 12,500, September 12,500 and October 7,500 in bac- 

 teria count. 



Mr. George H. Elt>is (ISTewton). T am thoroughly inter- 

 ested in this proposition. It is true that if you can show to 

 the farmers that it is for their welfare to do a certain thing 

 they will do it. Xow, accepting the statements of Dr. North, 

 the question for us to consider is how we can apply it in this 

 State. The conditions here are entirely diiferent from what 

 they are in the State of New York. Milk there is supplied 

 by several thousand creameries, while here in Massachusetts 

 in the main our milk is handled by three or four contractors. 

 Now, how we are to handle the proposition is a serious ques- 

 tion. Our propositio7i here is couiplicated further by the 

 fact that so large a proportion of the milk of the city of 

 Boston comes from outside the State. Now, if this plan 



