THE BOTTLING OF MILK 



CHAPTER XII. 



THE advantages of bottled milk over 

 the old style " dipped " milk are so 

 generally recognized that it is hard- 

 ly necessary to make a recommendation. 



The exposure of dipped milk to contam- 

 inating sources is endless. The forty-quart 

 can will be opened a hundred times on a 

 dirty, ill-smelling wagon, standing in numer- 

 ous streets and avenues, whose atmospheres 

 register a tremendous bacterial count, or in 

 a retailer's shop, with its dirt and odors and 

 the long procession of customers of every 

 degree of contamination or infection. 



When hawked about from house to house 

 and family to family the exposure is even 

 worse. Bottled milk, on the contrary, means 

 a small quantity, and frequently the exact 

 and entire supply of a family, protected 

 from the moment it is bottled and covered 

 until delivered for use. 



In the process of bottling this milk also 

 undergoes an inspection, and the consequent 



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