No. 4.] MILK SUPPLY AND PUBLIC HEALTH. 59 



financial point of view it is reduced to a fine point. The 

 covered wagon witli a place for the plugs under the milk- 

 man's feet is peculiar to Boston. One man and one horse de- 

 liver far more milk than in any other city on the face of the 

 globe. The thing is beautifully systematized from a finan- 

 cial stand-point. There has not been any intentional neglect 

 of sanitary precautions. In fact, the utmost care is taken to 

 prevent the souring of milk. The amount of acid in the 

 milk is very low indeed when it arrives in the city. 



I see no reason why the New York system could not be 

 adopted here, except that we have a system that it is very 

 hard to change, precisely as it has been very hard in New 

 York City to get rid of horse cars, — not that New York is 

 necessarily less progressive, but there is a lot of capital in- 

 vested in the horse cars. In a town where a new road is 

 being put in, they use the latest plans because it is the 

 simplest thing to do. These eight and one-half quart cans 

 would have to be changed, — at least it would be convenient 

 to change them, if we were going to adopt the New York sys- 

 tem. I think in time it may come about. I do see the hope 

 for a great deal of cleaning up. 



In regard to what Mr. Whitaker said, I want to second 

 his ideas. It is not that the consumer wishes to make trouble 

 for the producer. The much-abused middleman will find it 

 to his interest to co-operate with both consumer and pro- 

 ducer. I can say, although I am not here as a delegate, that 

 the boards of health would welcome any co-operation on the 

 part of the Milk Producers' Union, or any body of farmers, 

 or the Board of Agriculture, or anything of that kind. We 

 are all working to a common end, which is the perfection of 

 the system so that the consumer shall get good milk and the 

 producer shall receive fair pay for his pains and trouble. I 

 believe in co-operation rather than standing off and calling 

 one another names. I am delighted to face an audience 

 like this. The farmer sometimes comes to the city and is 

 interested in the milk he gets when he visits his friends. 



Hon. T. S. Gold (Secretary Connecticut State Board of 

 Agriculture). I would like to ask when this milk that is de- 

 livered in Boston to-morrow morning is milked on the farm. 

 In New York the milk delivered to-morrow morning was 



