406 THE DAIRYMAX*S MAKtJAL. 



The business of bottling milk for sale is one that 

 should be encouraged as far as possible. The milk 

 should be cooled, as above mentioned, before it is put 

 in the bottles, and then sealed up tightly, using rubber 

 rings under the stoppers. The Warren bottle (figure 98) 

 is the kind most used and holds a quart. Another, very 

 : useful bottle is shown at figure 99. As there is a loss of 

 fully ten per cent in measuring milk out of the large cans 

 in single pints and quarts, this is saved when bottles are 

 used, and the loss of bottles will not be as much as this. 

 Our method of distributing milk in bottles has been to 

 pack them in nests of two dozen, in boxes, fi*lling the 

 interstices with dry sawdust, or clean fresh grass in the 

 summer. If the boxes are shipped and pass through 

 several hands they should be locked and duplicate keys 

 kept, to prevent any meddling with the milk. 



To avoid loss or complaints by souring of the milk, 

 and to keep the bottles in good condition, the plan fol- 

 lowed in the author's dairy lias been to give each cus- 

 tomer a card with the following directions uj^on it: 



' * Keep this bottle in a cool place. 



'^ Or, loosen the cover and set the bottle in a pot of 

 cold water and heat to nearly boiling ; then close the 

 cover and set the bottle in a clean closet as cool as pos- 

 sible. 



'' When the bottle is emptied rinse it out with cold 

 water and leave it filled with fresh cold water until taken 

 away. " 



When the driver receives the emptied bottles he pours 

 out the water and sets the bottle in a rack in the wagon. 

 The large majority of consumers on a milk route will 

 readily pay a cent a quart more for milk put up in this 

 way, and this extra cent, with half a cent a quart saved 

 in the measuring, will pay for a bottle in the sale of six- 

 teen quarts. The bottles are not only paid for but the 

 extra labor of handling them is also compensated for. 



