MILK AS A MARKET COMMODITY 



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cities particularly, the frequent publication of bam or milk 

 plant scores or of the bacterial counts of the milk produced 

 by each dealer has had a very salutary effect. The Board 

 of Health of Lexington, Kentucky, for example, has been 

 for a number of years publishing monthly a chart (see 

 Figure i) showing by means of parallel bars the bacterial 



DIAGRAM 



SHOWING THE BACTERIAL COUNTS 

 OF T HE LEXINGTON MiLK SUPPLY FOR JUN.1S 17 



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Fig. I. — Diagram Showing the Bacterial Counts of the Lexington (Ky.) Milk 

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count of each dairyman's milk. The advertising done 

 by a progressive dairyman has often accomplished the 

 same results by compelling other dairymen to institute 

 more up-to-date methods. Such was the case in Beloit, 

 Wisconsin, where in 1916 there was practically no control 

 of any sort, yet milk of a high grade was being sold. Some 

 very poor, if not actually dangerous, milk was, however. 



