No. 4.] SANITARY MILK. Ill 



Mr. West. There arc farmers here to-day prol)al)ly keep- 

 ing from 5 to 40 cows, and the inspector is going tliroiigh 

 the community and is telling them to do away with certain 

 things that they haven't got, and also w ith certain things they 

 have got. These farmers are afraid they will have to go out 

 of business, but they don't dare stand up here and protest for 

 fear their Avords will be quoted in the papers. As for the 

 bacteria, isn't it worse for nervous women to read these re- 

 ports about the millions of bacteria in milk than it is to have 

 them live in a house with closed blinds year in and year out, 

 for fear some germ may get in? I think the imagination of 

 the bacteria is much worse than the bacteria themselves. 



Plon. M. A. MoESE (of Belchei-town). That expresses 

 my opinion to a certain extent. For the last twenty years I 

 have heard nothing but bacteria, and I hardly dare go to the 

 door and fill my lungs with air for fear I am filling them with 

 bacteria, and will have consumption or some other disease. 

 What we want to talk is, that our milk is all right, and we 

 want the people who buy it to believe it is all right, and 

 then they will use it ; Ixit if I Ijelieved one-half of what I 

 hear or read about it, I wouldn't drink milk once a month, 

 and I drink it now once a day. If all that is said about the 

 injury of bacteria to the human system were true, I would 

 have been dead forty or fifty years ago, and I am only fifty- 

 two years old. If I got down to less than 100,000 bacteria 

 per c. c, I Avouldn't get any more for my milk; and if I 

 said to the contractor, "I want 4 cents for my milk," he 

 would say, "Keep it at home." What we want the people 

 to know is, that we are making a good thing, — and Ave are, 

 — and then they are going to use more of it. If those 

 Avho lecture and those Avho write will fill the city papers full 

 of the nutritious value of milk, and that it is actually cheaper 

 than meat as a food, and that we are makins; a good thino:, 

 we shall sell more, and the demand will govern the price. 

 We have been talking, but we commenced at the wrong end. 

 What Ave Avant to do is to let the world knoAv that Ave are 

 doing just Avhat Ave are doing, — that is, making a good thing, 

 and a Avholesome thing, and a thing that doesn't kill babies. 

 I heard a lawyer in Boston say once, — a great, fat, greasy- 



