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for the smaller town is, therefore, somewhat simpler than 

 for the large city. 



Cooperation between the farmer, the railroad, and the 

 middleman would do much towards bringing a fresher 

 supply of milk into the city. The milk trains should be 

 fast express trains run on a careful schedule arranged to pre- 

 vent delays at the intermediate stations and the terminals. 



One of the reasons that the milk supply of cities is older 

 than it should be is the demand of the householder to have 

 the milk early in the morning before breakfast. This is a 

 survival of the days when the morning's milk was brought 

 fresh to town by the farmer's wagon. If the householder 

 had better refrigerating faciUties for preserving the milk, 

 and were willing to receive it during the daytime, he could, 

 on the average, obtain milk approximately twenty-four 

 hours earher than he now receives it. On the other hand, 

 it is an evident advantage for the householder to receive 

 the daily supply in the morning for the use of the day — 

 and keep none of it overnight. The faciUties for refrigera- 

 tion in the dairy are vastly superior to the average family 

 ice-box. 



Dr. North's plan 



About two years ago the New York Milk Committee 

 organized the Dairy Demonstration Company. A dairy 

 was purchased and rehabilitated at Homer, New York; 

 it is now sending six thousand quarts of clean milk to the 

 city every day. The object of the Dairy Demonstration 

 Company was to demonstrate the fact that a clean and 

 satisfactory milk may be produced with httle increase in 

 expense. This they have succeeded in doing. The methods 

 by which this has been accomplished are exceedingly 

 simple. The essential features are the following: — 



1. First of all, the farmer is paid for his time and trouble 

 in complying with the sanitary requirements. He is given 

 one half a cent a quart more for his milk to compensate 



