90 CONFERENCE ON MILK PROBLEMS 



housekeeper at 6 or 7 o'clock, but sometimes not before 8 or 9 

 o'clock. 



Not only that, but the milk that is delivered in bottles is, as a 

 general thing, held in the house without ice until quite late in the 

 evening, when the child, before it retires, is forced to drink this 

 milk. 



Now, then, on behalf of loose milk, or canned milk, as it is 

 commonly known, I should say that it is possible for the house- 

 keeper to get that milk in small quantities, even as little as 2 or 

 3 cents' worth, here in New York, and to use it just as soon as it 

 is taken into the house. 



So, without taking up any more of your time, as I might very 

 well do in this connection, I will say that I think that there is a 

 great deal to be said in behalf of the loose milk, or the canned, as 

 against the bottled milk. 



MR. CAMPBELL: I must say that I am rather surprised at the 

 remarks of the last speaker in opposition to bottled milk. The 

 great cry has been that loose milk should not be permitted to be 

 sold in certain stores that it is now being sold in, from the fact 

 that it is exposed to an atmosphere which is not of the best, and 

 especially during the hot weather, when the flies are pretty thick 

 and the cans remain on the floor without any ice to protect them 

 and no cover on them, so that any one who pleased could come up 

 and help himself. 



I think the bottle has proven that it has been the only safe 

 method of delivering milk to the family. How are you going to 

 deliver loose milk to-day to the consumer? You have to leave it 

 in an open pail. You have to dip it out of an open can. Your 

 driver has to hold his hands over it when it is pouring rain and 

 take the cover off the can and allow the drippings from the rain, 

 off his hands and off his clothing, to get into the milk. 



I think I know something about the bottle question. I had 

 the credit of putting the first glass milk bottle upon the market 

 more than thirty years ago. I built the first creamery in the 

 United States that ever shipped bottled milk to the market, and 

 I have had the pleasure, not only in this country but in Europe, 

 of seeing a great deal of bottled milk served, and I think it is ap- 

 preciated. Of course, it should be properly bottled. No milk 

 should be bottled unless the bottles are thoroughly sterilized. That 

 fact is understood and accepted, and I think that every responsi- 

 ble dealer to-day is equipped with the very best facilities for that 

 purpose. 



I am more than amazed to find any intelligent gentleman here 

 proposing that milk be delivered in such a way that you can go 

 out and get it by the 2 or 3 cents' worth after it is exposed, in 





