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to points of distribution situated particularly in those parts 

 of the city where it is most needed. Is this not possible from 

 the economic standpoint ? Probably it would cost about three- 

 quarters of a cent more to produce milk in the city than it 

 would in the country ; that is about the way it has figured 

 out. 



Did you know that a considerable part of the feed that you 

 now give to your cows on your milk farms in the country is 

 handled in the city and shipped from the cities out to the 

 country again? It is a question as to how much of the feed 

 could be produced and is produced on the farm, offset by the 

 saving on that part of the cow feed that would come from 

 consuming it in the city rather than shipping it out into the 

 country districts. And as an offset to that three-quarters of 

 a cent a quart, you have the cost of the transportation into 

 the city. And I believe that the wise way to do it would be 

 to so distribute these milk distributing stations throughout 

 the city, that it would do away with a large part of the 

 present wagon cost of milk transportation. 



Ladies and gentlemen, this is the ultimate. What are we 

 going to do in the meanwhile? In the meanwhile, I see but 

 one thing to do, and that is to take the milk as we have it now, 

 to see that the places in which it is produced are inspected to 

 the best of our ability, to exercise our energies in every agency 

 of control that we can demand, to see that contagion is not 

 spread by that milk, and then, as Prof. Sedgwick has said, 

 recognizing the deficiencies of every existing system, and 

 recognizing the deficiencies of things as they are and as they 

 are going to be for the next several years, to cook that milk 

 at such a temperature as will kill the bacteria that are con- 

 tained therein. This, in my judgment, is the only thing that 

 is open to us for the present, and the only thing that will be 

 open to us for several years. This other thing is a thing to- 

 ward which we should be constantly working. 



THE CHAIRMAN: In the old times, the wise men used to come 

 out of the East, ladies and gentlemen,, but now we get con- 

 structive suggestions from the other country. 



Some people are not aware that we have in the United States 

 a public health service, and those same people are so eager for 

 another one that they seem unable to discover the excellent one 



