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this is likely to occur is shown by the fact that to-day there 

 are a certain number of cow-keepers and milk producers who 

 produce and vend their milk under admirable conditions, and 

 can make a working profit at current prices. Further, it is 

 obvious that much money could and should be saved by 

 thoroughgoing improvements in distribution and by better 

 co-operation amongst milk producers. The money saved in 

 this way should materially if not entirely counterbalance any 

 increased expense in production. 



The writer is well aware that there are other practical 

 difficulties in the way of the proposed plan, of which perhaps 

 the most important are the difficulty of regulating the mixing 

 of milk from different sources, as practised by the large com- 

 panies, and the control of pasteurisation, but these do not 

 interpose insuperable difficulties, and certainly do not invali- 

 date the general principle. 



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