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milk as well as a general milk. So far as a general milk sup- 

 ply is concerned, it will not be difficult to throw around it such 

 precautions as are necessary to insure a reasonable degree of 

 safety for that. But in the production of baby milk, we must 

 proceed along another line. The producer of baby milk must 

 be a specialist. We cannot have a man who is making milk 

 in order to use economically the hay that is made on his farm, 

 or one who produces milk as a secondary proposition in the 

 operations of his farm, engaged in the production of baby 

 milk. That cannot be made secondary to the making of 

 manure for the purpose of fertilizing that farm and to the 

 economical consumption of oats, corn and hay that are made 

 on that farm. That baby milk is of such importance that it 

 must be made by people who are engaged in the making of 

 milk as a primary proposition, and the consumption of hay or 

 oats or corn, or the making of manure and other fertilizers, 

 must, on those farms at least, become a secondary considera- 

 tion. 



Having established a grade of baby milk, it must be made 

 legally obligatory that that milk, and that milk alone, shall 

 be used in the feeding of children, where artificial feeding is 

 necessary and where cow's milk is the method of feeding those 

 babies. It must be made a violation of law to feed babies 

 with other cow's milk than this quality or grade of milk that 

 is known as "baby milk." 



Now, how is that to be produced? In my judgment, the 

 ultimate thing is that we shall bring the baby and the cow 

 back together again. The ideal thing is to put the baby at the 

 teat of the cow, and everything that you cause to intervene 

 between that baby and that teat means dead babies, when you 

 consider babies by the hundreds and the thousands. The best 

 way and, in fact, the only feasible way that I see for getting 

 milk that is fresh getting milk that is less than twelve hours, 

 or, better still, less than six hours old is to bring the cow 

 back into the town. 



I do not mean that you shall judge the possibilities of this 

 proposition by that which you remember as the hygienic con- 

 ditions under which cows have been kept in the towns with 

 which you have been acquainted. To illustrate this proposi- 

 tion to you: In the City of Chicago, there are 77,482 horses 



