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usually the most satisfactory way of disposing of milk. 
Certain markets do not admit of this, and the selling 
through or to milk dealers is necessary. The milk traffic 
of our very large cities is handled in this way. 
The concentration of market milk in a few hands has been due to 
several reasons. One is the impossibility of producing enough milk 
for dense population from nearby land and the necessity of ever 
reaching out into new territory, often scores of miles away, to keep 
up the supply for constantly increasing demands. In these cases 
milk is brought to the place of consumption by trains. 
8. Producing market milk—Whether one is in per- 
sonal touch with his customers 
or markets his milk through = 
dealers, he is equally concerned ‘em Hi 
in producing a_ high-grade 
product that is clean, pure and 
wholesome. It is more and 
more the custom of city 
boards of health to set up 
standards that market milk 
must reach if it is disposed of 
in that city. This course has 
brought about many changes 
in the manner of producing, 
supplying and distributing 
milk, As these rules and Tesh ay, cceston about 4 hee ake 
lations become understood Pal at ire ret eeains: Sane 1Oe 
their early aggravating features 
disappear and the entire milk traffic assumes a new im- 
portance. Milk of a high grade will always be in de- 
mand, even increase, and in time the interests of both 
producer and consumer will be one of common concern. 
CLEAN MILK 
9. Farm butter.—One form of dairying is in mak- 
ing butter on the farm and in disposing of it to private 
customers. Before the days of the creamery, all butter 
