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like to know whether garget might be produced by giving 

 too much corn meal to a cow. 



Professor Sedgwick. I am not a veterinarian. I do not 

 know. I shall have to refer you to some one familiar with 

 the subject. 



Dr. LiNDSEY. I am not a veterinarian, but perhaps I can 

 make a suggestion. I think an inflammation of the milk 

 glands which sometimes is called "garget," might be brought 

 about by feeding. Sometimes garget is caused by bacteria, 

 which has been definitely proved and identified. 



Mr. C. D. Sage (of North Brookfield). I would like to 

 ask if there is any reason why milk cannot be delivered as 

 fresh in Boston as in New York. It reaches New York some- 

 where about midnight, and is taken at once directly to the con- 

 sumers' houses. Is there anything to prevent milk coming 

 into Boston being delivered in the same way? I have dis- 

 cussed this matter with the contractors. I formerly shipped 

 milk to New York, and I never have seen any reason why it 

 cannot be handled as promptly in Boston as in New York. 



Professor Sedgwick. I never could see any reason, either. 

 I was very much surprised to find that we had an inferior 

 system. 



I was very much interested in Mr. Whitaker's remarks, 

 which seem to embody a great deal of sound sense. I do 

 not see any reason wh}'^ our milk cannot be delivered as 

 it is in New York, except that we are accustomed to the 

 other method. It is a very hard thing to overcome. A 

 change would mean practically a complete revolution of the 

 present system. We do not realize what a serious thing it 

 would be. I think a contractor told me it could be done if it 

 seemed worth while. Mr. Whitaker is right about an after- 

 noon delivery of milk. Some think if milk is delivered at 

 an unearthly hour in the morning it is fresh. The milk 

 arriving in Boston in the morning could be just as well 

 delivered at three or four o'clock in the afternoon, and 

 then the householder could keep it until the next morning. 

 The milk would be actually much fresher ; but I suppose if 

 milk wagons M^ent around in the middle of the afternoon, the 

 ladies would rise in arms. I was very much surprised to 

 find how peculiar our Boston system is. From an economic 



