The Duty of the Consumer 



drink milk, as it is doubtful if any other 

 article of food is now produced with the 

 same attendant cleanliness through all its 

 various handlings. Immunity against the 

 communication of disease has been amply 

 provided by the utilization of modern scien- 

 tific knowledge. What is beyond the power 

 of the householder, namely, a knowledge and 

 a supervision of the source of the family food 

 supply, has been accomplished for him, by 

 the co-operation of health officials, physi- 

 cians, milk dealers, and dairy farmers, 

 tinder an inspected system of milk produc- 

 tion there is assured to the consumer a scru- 

 tiny of the methods and the equipment of the 

 dairy farm whence comes the family supply. 

 The fact that so important a food as milk 

 is placed beyond suspicion as to the manner 

 of its production should be cause for public 

 rejoicing. It should inspire in the consumer 

 of milk a confidence regarding it, and induce 

 him to use more of it, as milk, in food value, 

 is unsurpassed by any other one article util- 

 ized for the sustenance of life. 



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