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5. All materials used are procured wholesale, at a 

 considerable reduction in price, which tells on the 

 price of the milk. 



After reviewing the points which could make such 

 an establishment, or a number of them, a desirable 

 acquisition to the neighborhood of an urban popula- 

 tion, it is but fair to ascertain if this will, under 

 existing circumstances and conditions, equally be 

 a desirable undertaking for a dairy fanner. Binding 

 himself to the afore enumerated clauses, for the con- 

 duction of his establishment, he is certainly entitled 

 to the moral and efficient support of the authorities 

 and the board of health. The guarantee of pureness, 

 which is given to the products of the establishment 

 by a constant or periodical supervision, is absolutely 

 necessary to guard the public from imposition, as well 

 as the dairyman from the appearance of a spurious 

 article, which would at once tend to destroy his un- 

 dertaking by discrediting normal infants' milk 

 through the rapacity of unscrupulous rival parties. 

 For the same reason, the retailing of normal infants' 

 milk should not go through the channel of the small 

 milk trade, but through the establishment itself, 

 through a designated number of drug stores or large 

 milk traders. This business is one of confidence, 

 because of the difficulty of daily testing the pure- 

 ness of its products, it is, therefore, natural that it be 

 undertaken by, or conceded to, only such parties who — 

 apart from their physical and financial ability to per- 



