Clean Milk 



To point out to the consumer a duty in 

 connection with this superior milk should be 

 unnecessary. It is usually the women of the 

 family who are charged with the purchasing 

 of food, and it is for them to decide whether 

 the labors of scientific workers and the en- 

 terprise of dealers and farmers shall be 

 fruitless or not. No better field for civic 

 labor and the advancement of the public 

 good is offered than the seconding of these 

 efforts for the improvement of the milk sup- 

 ply. A woman should consider her family 

 milk supply as of the first importance; it 

 should not be left to servants or the janitor 

 to decide what dealer shall supply the milk. 

 She herself should take an interest in it and 

 make inquiries as to the source of supply 

 and the manner of producing it. When she 

 bestows her patronage on the dealer who 

 has expended money and labor to secure a 

 good milk she has the satisfaction of know- 

 ing that her discrimination in his favor, 

 against the dealer who does not care, counts 

 for widespread benefit. It stands for the 



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