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changes have not gone far enough to render 

 it unsalable it is delivered to the groceries 

 and sold by them to their customers. The 

 officials said that the individual farmers 

 were responsible, as they should have iced 

 their milk, while the farmers said as individ- 

 uals it was impracticable for them to 

 properly ice their milk, as they were only 

 provided with an ordinary freight car which 

 was allowed to stand out in the hot sun in 

 the middle of the afternoon. On the same 

 siding, in marked contrast to the car above 

 described, was the milk car of one of the New 

 York dealers, which was not an ordinary 

 freight car, but one made for the purpose of 

 transporting milk. This dealer, taking his 

 milk directly from the creamery, placed it in 

 the car with about three tons of ice. His 

 milk was thus transported to New York in a 

 thoroughly cooled condition. 



The manner of local delivery of milk is 

 also important. Most of the railroads de- 

 posit their milk upon the station platforms 

 between 11 and 12 p. m. Here much of it 



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