394 Bacteria in Relation to Country Life 



PROBLEMS OF TRANSPORTATION AND DISTRIBUTION 



The milk-producer in the country is bound by ties 

 of common interest to the milk-consumer in the city. 

 In proportion as the milk sold in the city is clean and 

 wholesome, the demand for it is increasing. The in- 

 telligent consumer is willing to pay a higher price for 

 high-grade milk. It is in the interest of the milk-pro- 

 ducer, therefore, to supply milk of good quality. 



The campaign in the interest of sanitation that is 

 now conducted in every progressive city, and the higher 

 standard of education and intelligence among the dairy 

 farmers, have been responsible for a clearer understand- 

 ing of the problems of milk-transportation and milk- 

 distribution. The farmers of the East, of the Middle 

 West and of the West, appreciate, much better than do 

 the farmers of the South and of the Southwest, that the 

 keeping quality of milk, and its wholesomeness, are 

 determined largely by the rapidity with which milk 

 is cooled after its removal from the barn. 



Milk-producers have been taught that, aside from 

 cleanliness in production, it is essential that the milk be 

 cooled at once to 50° Fahr., or below that if practicable. 

 Hence, we see that some of the milk sold in New York 

 City, and carried for 350 to 400 miles before it reaches 

 its destination, is as good or better than much of the 

 milk sold in southern cities, and carried but three or 

 four miles before it reaches its destination. 



The milk-dealers and sanitarians constantly empha- 

 size the fact that milk must not only be cooled, but that 

 jt must b? kept cool until it is delivered to the consumer. 



