CHAPTER VIII 



PURE VERSUS PURIFIED MILK 



From the foregoing summary of the remedial ex- 

 periments made in this country and in Europe it 

 will be seen that the advocates of reform in the 

 methods of producing and distributing the public 

 milk supply may be roughly divided into two classes. 

 While the nomenclature may be open to criticism, 

 for the purpose of this discussion these classes may 

 be defined as radical idealists and opportunists: the 

 one class demanding a pure milk supply and decrying 

 every proposal which stops short of that ideal; the 

 other class taking the conservative view that in this 

 far from ideal world pure milk is impossible as a 

 general rule, — a very beautiful ideal, but unattain- 

 able, except for a favored few, for many years to 

 come, if ever at all. And because they believe this, 

 they urge that, while aiming at absolute purity, it 

 is necessary in the meantime to purify the milk. 



This broadly defines the issue upon which the re- 

 formers of the milk supply of the great cities have 

 split into separate and sometimes bitterly hostile 



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