492 THE CONTROL OF THE MILK SUPPLY 



they can only sell the milk by drawing it from the taps which open 

 and shut in the openings below the doors of the cart ; it is also 

 impossible for them to defraud by selling one quantity of milk for 

 another, for above each tap is printed in full the indication whole 

 milk or creamed milk. The seller is also bound to give his 

 customer a ticket of a different colour for each quality, on which 

 ticket is printed the price and quantity of the milk bought as well 

 as a number and the trade-mark of the Company. This is the same 

 for the bottles of cream and infants' milk sold with the seals intact 

 In this way the different qualities of milk reach the consumer as 

 guaranteed by the Company. In summer the cans and bottles are 

 surrounded by ice in the carts, which keeps the temperature as low 

 as possible. 



The sale of whole and creamed milk absorbs the greater part of 

 the 30,000 litres which the Company receives daily ; the quantity 

 of milk sold under the name of milk for infants, either whole and 

 fresh, or modified and pasteurised, is above 4000 litres per day. 



Price of the milk. — At present, the Company buys milk at io|^ 

 ores (14I centimes) the litre. This is a higher average price than 

 that which the French farmer gets for the milk he sells wholesale 

 (i I to 1 3 centimes), but for this price the Company expects absolutely 

 irreproachable milk. To cut short any attempt at adulteration, any 

 milk of apparently inferior quality is refused without compensation ; 

 on the other hand, in order to obtain milk free from pathogenic 

 germs, they agree to pay for, without receiving, the milk of any 

 cow that the farmer suddenly suspects of disease. The Company 

 sells it at the following prices : — 



Whole milk . . . .of -225 (16 ores) per litre. 



Half-creamed milk, containing about 



I per cent, of fat . . . of -112 (Sores) „ 



Whole milk for infants . • o f -28 (20 ores) „ 



Cream of ist quality • . if -40 (i krone) „ 



Cream of 2nd quality . , i f -12 (80 ores) „ 



Cream of 3rd quality . . o f -84 (60 ores) „ 



The Company, after having paid for the milk a Jiigher price 

 than is paid for it in France, after having treated it in the compli- 

 cated manner described, resells it at less than half the price that it 

 is sold by Parisian retailers. 



Cleansing" of the cans and bottles. — On their return to the works 

 the vans bring back the empty cans and bottles from the depots 

 and customers' houses, as well as those which had contained the 

 milk sold in the streets, still with seals intact. As soon as they 



