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of milk to the growing child and suggests the great benefits which can 

 be secured through systematic recording of the children's weight and 

 "height and steps to provide children with the milk required for their 

 growing needs. In no other way can the city do so much for the welfare 

 of its future citizens.) 



11. That the city establish and maintain a sufficient number of 

 Infant milk depots, similar to those operated by the City of New York 

 and elsewhere, for the dispensing of milk for infants and for children 

 under school age to place within reach of the children of the poor, at a 

 reasonable price, all milk required for such infants and children. These 

 depots might be located in public schools or at other convenient points in 

 the congested districts. The success of the New York infant milk depots 

 justifies the City of Rochester in furnishing such a milk supply for infant 

 feeding under such auspices. 



II 



RECOMMENDATIONS TO MILK PRODUCERS 



1. It is recommended that the milk producers establish a milk 

 factory for the handling of surplus milk, either in the City of Rochester 

 or at some other convenient point. The milk producers' organization 

 should assume entire responsibility for all surplus milk. Through the 

 centralization of the manufacture of surplus milk into milk products, a 

 great saving in loss from surplus would result. 



The producers' organization would then be in a position to furnish 

 to the milk distributing concerns of Rochester exactly the quantity of 

 fluid milk which the market demands and losses on surplus, due to lack 

 of facilities for handling the same on the part of small dealers, would be 

 entirely eliminated. In such a surplus factory the producers can control 

 to better advantage the milk furnished by the individual members of their 

 organization, making butter fat tests, milk measurements, and carrying 

 out cooling and refrigeration much more effectively than is done under 

 the present competitive system. 



2. That milk producers establish a centralized hauling system for 

 hauling milk from dairy farms to the point of shipment, thus eliminating 

 the numerous individual farmers' wagons now engaged in such hauling. 



3. That milk producers eliminate as rapidly as possible dairy cows 

 which are unprofitable, by establishing throughout the milk producing 

 territory cow testing associations which will include every milk producer. 



4. That milk producers increase the size of their herds as the quick- 

 est means of reducing the cost of milk production. 



5. That the milk producers' organization agree upon a standard 

 type and size of milk can, and that all producers use the same type and 



