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most generally used container for delivery to family trade. 

 Several dealers' delivery routes may cover the entire terri- 

 tory, and others only a portion of it, and the duplication of 

 routes in the milk delivery service is necessarily a source of 

 expense. This duplication of expense is not confined to the 

 milk business alone, however, but is found in many other 

 lines of business and in social life as well. When we have a 

 j)lan for the satisfactory arrangement of the number of 

 churches that can be most economically maintained, and so 

 arrange the minds of the people to the extent that all people 

 on certain city blocks shall worship at a certain church lo- 

 cated most conveniently to their place of residence, regard- 

 less of their former belief, and when we have people who 

 will be of one mind as to the place where they will buy their 

 clothing, shoes, groceries and market supplies, we can also 

 have a condition of mind that will enable all the jieople on 

 certain city blocks to unite in buying their entire milk supply 

 of a single dealer, and pay their milk bill when it is due. 

 Frankly, I do not believe it would be possible for either the 

 city governments or the producers of milk themselves to carry 

 on the business of buying, handling and distributing milk 

 more economically or with greater regard for the public 

 health than it is now being carried on by some of the larger, 

 more intelligent and progressive dealers. 



These are some of the problems which, I believe, the 

 present generation unfortunately may be compelled to leave 

 for future generations to solve. In order, however, that there 

 may be future generations which will be capable of solving 

 some of the problems which we may be compelled to abandon, 

 it will be wise and necessary that we, in this day and gener- 

 ation, should seek a j^roper understanding regarding the 

 relation of the milk supply to the public health, and the im- 

 portance of a safe milk supply from 



The City Co>rsiT:\rER's Standpoint. 

 The production, distribution and use of milk is, first of 

 all, a business proposition. The composition of milk is not 

 a matter of public health, but is a matter regarding which 



