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farms and about 600 quarts of milk two years ago, the com- 

 pany now receives milk from about 70 dairy farms and its 

 volume of business has grown to more than 10,000 quarts 

 daily. It has found its largest market in the infant milk 

 depots operated by the New York Milk Committee and 

 under the auspices of the New York City Department of 

 Health. During the summer of the present year there have 

 been 55 milk depots in Manhattan and Brooklyn, feeding 

 during the hot months 14,000 babies per day. The company 

 has supplied all of the milk to these stores and this supply 

 has been a large factor in the reduction of infant mortality, 

 which this summer has been the lowest in the history of the 

 city. 



Outline of North's Milk System 



1. Object. The objects of this system are the production 

 of clean milk at low cost; to secure clean milk from the 

 present milk producers and under the auspices of present 

 milk dealers with the least possible disturbance of commer- 

 cial conditions; to reduce to a minimum the dairy equipment 

 and the sanitary measures used on dairy farms, retaining 

 only those things positively essential for clean milk produc- 



phatically demonstrated, not only there, but in numerous other places." 

 There are now (1916) established under supervision of Dr. North a 

 station in Maryland, one in New Jersey, three in Pennsylvania, two 

 more in New York State, and one in Vermont. There are over one 

 hundred farms supplying milk to the Homer station at the present 

 time, and the total number of quarts is over 20,000 quarts daily. The 

 number of milk depots in Manhattan and Brooklyn is now over sixty, 

 and the number of babies feeding from these is nearly 25,000 daily. 

 At Oxford, Pa., the station ships milk produced by 135 dairymen. 

 "This place," says Dr. North, "is more remarkable than Homer, 

 because the majority of the men do not have ice, and the character of 

 their barns and dairy equipment is very much inferior to that at Homer, 

 yet, in spite of these drawbacks, the majority of them are producing 

 milk with a very low bacterial count." 



