CHAPTER V 

 HOW SOLVE THE PROBLEM? 



It now remains only to sum up the indications of 

 the preceding chapters, together with some considera- 

 tions of a more sweeping character. 



THE GREAT NEED: MANIFESTATION OF VALUES 



The great difficulty in the milk situation to-day is 

 that values, both sanitary and economic, are not 

 clearly recognized. Milk is the one staple food which 

 varies in sanitary value, in food value, and in cost of 

 production without these variations being generally 

 recognized in retail price. This is the "milk is milk" 

 difficulty. 



Eggs are sold according to freshness, butter accord- 

 ing to flavor, flour according to its bread-making quali- 

 ties, meat according to the cut; but milk is sold, by an 

 outgrown custom, as plain milk a white fluid in a 

 can or a bottle. If it can be sold as such, the dealer is 

 satisfied; if he obtains cream for his coffee and an 

 opalescent liquid for his children, the customer is con- 

 tent. The dairyman of slovenly methods may compete 

 with the cleanly, careful dairyman so long as he man- 

 ages to meet the minimum requirements of the law. 

 He may get the same price, and his methods play the 

 predominant part in fixing the market price of the 

 product known without discrimination as "milk." 



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