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to find; here the trouble is undoubtedly caused by the way in 

 which the milk is used or handled by the customers. The milk 

 man is not always at fault when the milk or cream sours on the 

 consumers' hands, because the milk man cannot be sure of the 

 care it will receive after he delivers it. 



841. The care of milk and cream after it reaches the kitchen 

 is just as important as the farm care of these products. Some 

 of the causes of milk souring after it gets into the hands of the 

 consumer are the following: 



1. Frequent changes in the help employed at the customer's 

 house. 



2. A long time for serving breakfast to different members of 

 the family, when the cream may stand on the breakfast table in 

 a warm room for two hours or more. It may have been taken 

 off the ice at 7 :00 a. m., but by waiting for the last member of 

 the family to have breakfast, which may be 9 :00 a. m., the cream 

 has warmed up to 70 F. before it is returned to the ice box. 



3. Lack of ice in the refrigerator, which may be located 

 near the cook stove in a hot kitchen, and the help or someone 

 else has forgotten to put the ice card in the window and keep 

 the refrigerator supplied with ice. 



4. Placing the bottle of milk and cream in the grass on the 

 shady side of the house instead of in a refrigerator. 



5. Trying to make a small quantity of cream go too far in 

 a large family by diluting it with milk which is slightly sour or 

 tainted. In such a case the milk is at fault, but the cream gets 

 Hie blame. 



6. Diluting milk and cream with rice water in the kitchen 

 before it goes on the table. 



7. Requiring the milk man to take the garbage from the 

 house if. his milk is bought. This pollutes the milk wagon, but 

 the customer expects the milk man to deliver perfectly sweet 

 and clean milk just the same. 



8. Buying dairy products from two firms, one cheap and 

 the other not so cheap, and complaining of defects in milk and 

 cream to the head of one firm, and asking him to exchange some 

 of his high quality goods for spoiled products on hand. 



