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great depot, located, perhaps, more than a mile from the 

 milk plant, as is done, necessarily, by the steam road. 

 Los Angeles has satisfactorily developed the milk traffic in 

 this way. 



Under present conditions, in most cities, milk is hauled 

 by dray from the railway station to the city milk plant. 

 This extra handling and labor cannot wholly be done away 

 with. 



The Intake. — On arrival at the city milk plant each 

 can must be inspected by an experienced man with a keen 



Fig. 14. — A-F gravity conveyers installed in Howell 

 Condensed Milk and Cream Co. plant. 



sense of smell. Milk containing any sour or other un- 

 desirable odor is not, and should not be, accepted. The 

 inspection of milk on a large scale is done almost entirely 

 by the sense of smell, because the sense of taste cannot be 

 relied upon after several hundred cans of milk have been 

 tasted in quick succession. 



However, there are other tests for the sanitary condi- 

 tion of milk which are very useful under certain conditions, 

 but are not being extensively used in this country at the 

 present time, (See Chapter XII.) 



