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tion; the securing of such clean milk as is to be sold in a raw 

 condition; the cleaning up of all milk which is to be pas- 

 teurized, in the belief that all milk used for drinking purposes 

 should be clean in the first instance, whether pasteurized or 

 not. 



2. Centralization. The backbone of the system is the 

 principle of centralization. While modern business has 

 brought about great organizations in the selling department 

 of the milk industry, the producing end of the line has been 

 left largely to shift for itself. Milk producers are permitted 

 to produce milk under their own auspices and by such meth- 

 ods as their ignorance and carelessness may dictate. Many 

 things done on dairy farms can be done much better in a 

 central station. Among these are washing and sterilizing 

 of milk cans and milking pails, bottling of milk and labora- 

 tory testing of milk. Sixty per cent of the dairy farms have 

 polluted well water and as large a percentage have inefficient 

 methods of washing and sterilizing utensils and of cooling 

 milk. 



3. Organization. The advocates of certified milk have 

 not considered fully business organization. Certified dairies 

 make no use whatever of the principle of centralization. 

 Each certified dairy conducts its business in a most extrava- 

 gant and inefficient manner. Each certified dairy farm is 

 fully equipped to conduct its business as a separate unit, 

 regardless of the volume of business. 



Instead of each farm being a separate unit with a small 

 volume of business, North's Milk System makes them each 

 a part of a large organization with a large volume of busi- 

 ness. . . . [See lower diagram of Fig. 4, chapter II, as a 

 substitute for the diagram which we omit here.] The dairy 

 farms are each members of a group patronizing the central 

 sterilizing station. At the central plant milk is received and 

 shipped. This station, as a matter of fact, is a large dairy 

 house and performs all of the functions of a dairy house for 



