CHAPTER XII. 



Conclusion. 



However advantageous and promising an undertak- 

 ing may appear, yet exhaustive investigation and 

 calculations of cost of production, and probable 

 amount of sales, should form a principal factor in the 

 decision. The dairyman intending to take up this 

 industry, should first of all find out if the physicians 

 of the place take an active interest in the matter. 

 This is generally the case, as no doctor can afford to 

 ignore or treat the subject with indifference; moreover, 

 infants are, in most cases, the most ungrateful 

 patients they have. The next step is to find out the 

 number of residents who would, in all probability, be 

 found willing to pay a higher price for a healthy in- 

 fants' milk. On an average we may calculate on 

 forty births a year for every 1,000 inhabitants. We 

 may further calculate that ten of these new-born in- 

 fants will be nourished with normal milk for the en- 

 tire first year, and twenty for a period of six months 

 only. In the second year of their lives, infants 

 should be able to take pure cow's milk, this should, 

 however, always have been produced under observa- 

 tion of all precautionary measures mentioned hereto- 

 fore, and always be sterilized. L,et us calculate that 

 for twenty children, in their second year, such steriJ- 



