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MILK HYGIENE 



II. REGULATIONS CONCERNING THE SALE 

 AND DELIVERY OF MILK 



Just as supervision is necessary of the herds which 

 produce the milk, and in regard to the care of milk at 

 its source, so also is supervision necessary after it comes 

 into the hands of the wholesale and retail dealers. This 

 supervision is much easier to carry out than that with 

 relation to production. 



The regulations governing sale and delivery must 

 embrace not only the methods of handling the milk and 



FIG. 13. 



FIG. 14. 



Danish milk-cans. 



Helm's milk-cans. 



the health of the attendants, but there should also be 

 rules concerning the place in which the milk is sold, the 

 manner of selling it and the labelling of the goods. 



a. Preparing the milk for delivery. Although small 

 concerns subject the milk to no especial treatment from 

 the time it is received until it is sold, this is not the case 

 with the large companies. These have considerable 

 work to perform in the handling of milk and its delivery 

 to customers. The milk [under the Danish system] is 

 received from the stations in a more or less cool condi- 



