No. 4.] CLEAN MILK. 47 



THE FOOD VALUE OF CLEAN MILK. THE DEMAND 

 FOR CLEAN MILK: THE KEASONABLENESS OF ir. 



BY PROF. R. M. WASHBURJST, DEPARTMENT OF DAIRY HUSBANDRY, VER- 

 MONT AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION, BURLINGTON, VT. 



A situation exists to-day in New England and New York, 

 and, to a lesser extent, westward to the opposite ocean. It is 

 more than local, though we are the first to feel it keenly. It 

 is more than a dairyman's problem; in fact, it is more than 

 an agricnlturist's question. It is an economic condition based 

 upon tradition, poor memory, personal greed, and an inabil- 

 ity and unwillingness of the average individual to read or 

 reason. 



Dean Davenport of Illinois calculates that by the end of 

 the present century there "will be about twelve hundred mil- 

 lion people in this country. 



President J. J. Hill of the Great Northern Eailroad, wlicii 

 discussing the food supply of the future, predicts that l)y the 

 middle of the present century there will be a wheat shortage 

 of 400,000,000 bushels. 



Lord Macaulay is quoted as saying: " The day will come 

 when the multitudes of people, none of whom has had more 

 than half a breakfast or expects to have more than half a 

 dinner, will choose a Legislature. It is possible to doubt 

 what sort of a Legislature will be chosen, . . . There will be, 

 I fear, spoliation. The sjxdiation will increase the distress; 

 the distress will produce fresh sjDoliation. . . . Either civi- 

 lization or liberty will perish." 



There remains very little new laud to be taken u]); our 

 " out west " is past, so far as extension is concerned. The 

 nation faces a situation which is none the less real because 

 distant a few years from us. 



