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adults, or for cooking and manufacturing purposes, 

 and then to endeavor to get the best possible milk for 

 each purpose. 



To give an answer to the question, "Can pure milk 

 be got?" it may be said that to raise all milk to the 

 highest quality is impracticable, but to obtain a safe, 

 suitable milk for each purpose is entirely possible. 

 And this should be the immediate object of practical 

 milk sanitation. 



THE MODERN MILK PROBLEM 



The present-day problem of milk supplies is rooted 

 in an obvious condition of modern urban civilization 

 the wide separation of the producer and the consumer. 

 It is also true, no doubt, that the conditions of urban 

 life have made city babies and children, and city 

 dwellers in general, more susceptible to the effects of 

 bad or infected milk. But it is the long haul and the 

 broken journey that are chiefly responsible for typically 

 modern conditions. To illustrate roughly why the 

 milk question has come to the fore in recent years with 

 such insistence, we need only point to two contrasted 

 pictures the old-time milk supply and that of the 

 present day in our cities. 



The Old-Style Milkman: An Anachronism To-day 



The old-time milkman kept his cows just as he 

 would keep any other live stock. He went about his 

 milking in the rough, untutored manner that he would 

 go about any other farm work, without stopping to 

 wash the dirt of honest toil from his hands, or to clean 

 the caked manure from the udders of his cows. The 



