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most desirable animal for supplying milk specially 

 intended for infants. 



Further, to get a really satisfactory milk for infant 

 feeding, we must have what Dr. Roby has called " the 

 application of surgical principles to the milk busi- 

 ness." ^° The Certified Milk Movement has shown, 

 however, that it is practically impossible to get any 

 considerable number of milk producers to observe 

 its requirements, and then only at a price which makes 

 the milk an unattainable luxury for all except the 

 favored few. They have one or two farmers pro- 

 ducing such milk for Rochester, but when the best 

 city milk was sold for six cents a quart, the certified 

 milk was sold for nine cents a quart. In Newark, 

 N.J., under the direction of Dr. Coit, they have a 

 Milk Commission which certifies the milk from one 

 farm. But when the best grades of bottled milk 

 were sold in the city for eight cents a quart, the certi- 

 fied milk brought fifteen cents a quart. Fifteen cents 

 is the usual price of certified milk in New York City, 

 but there are some firms that charge twenty cents, as 

 against eight cents for the best grades of bottled milk 

 supplied by the ordinary trade. It is not surprising 

 that the quantity of certified milk sold in any city 

 should be as "a drop in a bucket," that out of 

 1,500,000 quarts of milk consumed in New York 

 City each day not more than 8000 quarts should be 

 certified. 



