304 THE COMMON SENSE OF THE MILK QUESTION 



municipal farms for providing public institutions — 

 infants' milk depots for the sale of properly modified 

 and pasteurized milk for babies — education of the 

 mothers and of the girls before they reach wifehood 

 and motherhood, — such are the principal features 

 which must be included in our campaign for the reform 

 of our public milk supply and saving the babies. 



I have been asked many times whether the ordinary 

 farmer will be able to meet the conditions which it 

 wiU be necessary to impose upon the production of 

 milk, and I frankly reply that I cannot believe he will. 

 The small farmer, in my judgment, will be unable 

 to do all that will be demanded. Like the small 

 retail stores, the small dairy farms will, in aU probabil- 

 ity, be forced out of existence. Not this year or next, 

 perhaps, but sooner or later. It is inevitable. With 

 our present unorganized production and distribution 

 of milk, it will be impossible to carry reform very far 

 without raising the price of milk to a very injurious 

 and deplorable standard. And to greatly increase 

 the price of milk means that the babies will perish 

 for want of milk — if, indeed, there is not a revolt 

 which will sweep aside the reformers and their schemes 

 of reform. 



But I differ from many careful students of the 

 problem in believing that, given proper organization, 

 a satisfactory milk can be produced even more 

 cheaply than the poor and contaminated stuff now 



