The Opportunity of the Dealer 



numbers five hundred to a thousand animals, 

 the provision for efficient veterinary service 

 and proper treatment of sick animals would 

 seem welcome and likely to be repaid. 



When milk is once delivered on the deal- 

 er's premises it should be beyond any further 

 risk of contamination or deterioration. The 

 dealer owes it to the farmer on the one hand, 

 and to his customer on the other, that hence- 

 forth the care and protection of this milk 

 should be beyond cavil or reproach. The 

 farmer stands for a large number of individ- 

 uals working under certain difficulties, and 

 allowance is made thereby for some short- 

 comings at the dairy. But at the dealer's 

 establishment conditions are different. It 

 is one place subtending fifty or a hundred 

 dairies, its requirements are comparatively 

 few and simple, definitely known, and can be 

 readily provided for. 



The milk is to be received from the far- 

 mers, at once thoroughly iced, and kept iced 

 until delivered for use. If it is to be bottled, 

 the bottling room and the process of bottling 



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