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he has served that his bottles have been stolen. There is 

 a loss that there is no help for, that I know of. Then there 

 is a loss on frosty mornings. Day before yesterday we had 

 the thermometer below zero. Of conrse the milli in the 

 bottles that had been left exposed froze, but the bottles are 

 so shaped that the freezing of the milk in them does not 

 break them. They are contracted at the neck, but the 

 necks are pretty large ; they are from an inch and a quarter 

 to an inch and a half in diameter at the mouth, and covered 

 with a tin cap. We have discarded the glass caps which we 

 used at first, which were very pretty, very cleanly and sweet, 

 and all that, but the tin caps are much more lasting ; they 

 do not chip. When people find pieces of glass from the 

 tops in their milk they are very apt to complain. These tin 

 caps are held down by a wire, and if the milk freezes, the 

 caps will be forced up, to the disadvantage of the wire on 

 top ; they will stand three-quarters of an inch above the tops 

 of the bottles ; but on frosty mornings, when there is any 

 suspicion of such difllculty, the driver is instructed to loosen 

 the cap, leaving it still over the top, but loose ; then, if the 

 milk freezes before it is taken in, there is no harm done. 



In reo-ard to the breaking: of bottles, we found that more 

 bottles were broken in those twenty-quart boxes than in the 

 twelve-quart boxes. If a man is handling one of those 

 heavy boxes, it falls with a great deal of force when he 

 pitches it into the cart in a hurry. The small boxes are 

 more easily handled, so that we do not get much breakage, 

 and we are saving a great deal in that item. Experience 

 helps us in these things as well as others. 



We find that the physicians are our very best friends ; 

 they introduce the milk. If they have been using poor milk 

 and find ours, they are quick to learn the difference, and we 

 have constant assurances from people whose children have 

 fared ill on common milk of the excellence of ours, and so 

 the business is spreading without much effort on our part. 



Mr. Taft. I spent ten days in New York City and 

 Brooklyn in August, and the family where I visited had 

 young children. They bought the milk described by INIr. 

 Weld, and I can bear testimony that it was just as good 

 milk as those children could have had if they had been on 



