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ceive such poor pay for their product that at best the 

 euterprise holds out small inducement, indeed, to those who 

 have capital seeking employment. 



The demand for clean milk is growing; it is growing rap- 

 idly. The health authorities, aided by many of the best- 

 informed consumers of our cities, are active throughout the 

 land in establishing laws and rules to govern the quality of 

 milk sold in their respective cities. Whereas formerly the 

 milk inspectors had to do principally with the retailer of 

 the milk, the actual producer is now becoming mcjre and 

 more involved, so that the health regulations of Boston and 

 New York, and of other cities, are very materially affecting 

 the routiue work on the dairy farms throughout New Eng- 

 land and New York. That this demand is increasing is 

 evident to every one at all conversant with the situation. 

 Our fii-st question is, " Is this demand a well-founded and 

 an intelligent one ? " 



Amount of Milk used. — According to the latest obtain- 

 alile figures there are i)roduced in the United States about 

 7,20(5,400,000 gallons of milk per year, of which practically 

 30 per cent, or 2,180,000,000 gallons, are used as milk. 

 Though this figure looks large it even then amounts to only 

 six-tenths of a jiint per day per person, whichj viewed in 

 that light, appears small. If accurate figures could be ob- 

 tained up to the present time, they would undoubtedly be 

 larger than those named, for milk is being more and more 

 consumed as its real value becomes better known. At pres- 

 ent "milk and cream together furnish about 16 per cent of 

 the total food of the average American family." 



Numher of Dependent Infants. — There are in the TTnited 

 States approximately one and one-half million babies under 

 one year of age at the jiresent time, about one million of 

 whom are dependent entirely oi- largely upon cow's milk for 

 their nourishment, and the per cent of bottle-fed ba1)ies is 

 increasing. Although adults consume consideral)le quanti- 

 ties of milk, infants and young children furnish the principal 

 market for milk. What relation is there between cow's milk 

 and the well-being of these babies ? Statistics in this country 



