Clean Milk 



and short haul trains transporting it only 

 from fifty to one hundred and fifty miles. 

 One would naturally expect that the rail- 

 roads would endeavor to bring the milk to 

 the city in the very best possible condition. 

 While this is true of some of the railroads it 

 is not true of others. Some seem to assume 

 that all they need to do is to get the milk 

 to New York in a salable condition. If the 

 milk is transported very long distances 

 great precautions are taken to preserve it, 

 while if transported from adjacent counties 

 hardly any attention at all is paid to it. Thus 

 it comes about that some of the very worst 

 milk delivered in New York is milk brought 

 from the nearest places. 



In the summer of 1901, the writer noticed 

 that an ordinary freight car was left by the 

 morning train on a siding about eighty miles 

 from New York city, to receive the milk of a 

 number of separate farms from the adjacent 

 country. The day was the second of July, 

 when the mercury ranged from 85° to 98°. 

 At three o'clock in the afternoon, the far- 



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