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sonally superintend and foster it — have thoroughly- 

 mastered the theoretical and technical parts of the' 

 matter and can command the entire confidence of the 

 "parties of the second part." On the other hand, it 

 would be folly for a dairyman to undertake the fitting 

 out of a sterilizing establishment without the encour- 

 agement and support just mentioned ; it seems, how- 

 ever, unnecessary to dwell longer on this subject ; 

 wherever undertaken, by the proper person and with 

 the proper appliances, the advantages that may 

 accrue to the sanitary condition and the welfare of 

 the population it would serve, have been sponta- 

 neously recognized. As an instance I will mention 

 that it is a well established fact that since the estab- 

 lishment of the dairy of Mr. Bolle, in the German 

 capital, the morality of the infants has been lowered 

 twenty-five per cent. 



As to general rules for the location of such an es- 

 tablishment, they will, in a great measure, always be 

 govered by local conditions, it should, however, cer- 

 ly not be located at a greater distance from the popu- 

 lation which consumes its products, than will allow of 

 an easy supervision and rapid transportation. This 

 distance will be regulated, in a manner, by the value 

 of land in the vicinity of the city or town it would 

 have to serve. The advantages which close prox- 

 imity ma)' confer are entirely lost if the price of the 

 milk has to be raised to meet the extra expense of 

 high rents on land, and as long as transportation can 

 be expeditously carried on, there need exist no other 



