1909 



MILK COMMISSION. 



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Arrangements were made to purchase the milk from a certain number of COWB 

 on a nearby farm for the two months, to have it modified, chilled and bottled by 

 a trained nurse and to have it placed in the hands of the city mothers. This was 

 the plan inaugurated in 1897, carried on successfully ever since, and shown your 

 Commission on their visit. 



JUST AN ORDINARY FARM. 



First the farm. It was just an ordinary farm and just an ordinary barn, 

 located about six miles from the city. The cows had all been subject to the tuber- 



Rochester's simple plant for sterilizing bottles at farm for infants' milk. 



culin test, but otherwise they were just ordinary cows. The barn was kept clean 

 and screens were over the windows to keep out the flies. A small-top pail was 

 used in milking, and for the infants' milk a thin linen strainer was placed over 

 the opening, although the man milking the next cow used no such precaution. 



As each cow was milked, the milk was 1 taken to the milk-house twenty-five 

 yards away. This milk-house was the property of Rochester. It was a simple, 

 portable structure of wood and screens, so constructed that it might easily be taken 

 down at the conclusion of the summer's work and if necessary taken to another 

 farm the next year. This milk-house was equipped with apparatus for bottling and 

 chilling the milk, which was first modified to suit infants of different ages. It was 



