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fever, diphtheria or typhoid fever exist on the premises the millc 

 dealer should refuse to leave bottles or take back any empty bottles.. 



In such a case milk may be poured from the bottle into a utensil 

 furnished by the customer and left outside the premises for that 

 purpose. The utensil belonging to the customer should not be 

 touched by the milkman. 



Customers should be told that all utensils in which milk ,.is 

 kept should only be cleaned by rinsing in lukewarm water, by 

 -washing in soap and water, by rinsing in clean water, and finally 

 by scalding in boiling water. The utensil should then be left to 

 drain and dry without touching a towel to it. 



It is well for milk producers to supply their customers with 

 instructions to the above effect. 



The nature of local conditions will determine to a considerable- 

 extent the cost of delivery and also many of the practical details 

 as to the kind of wagon, bottle boxes, use of ice in wagons, etc. 

 To obviate overhauling of the boxes in the wagons they should not 

 be piled in layers one over the other. This may be accomplished 

 by means of a special arrangement in the wagon shown in Fig. 48. 

 I have personally had no experience with this wagon, but have 

 considered that simplicity is one of the chief aims in any scheme, 

 and by making the wagon wide and long enough one can carry 

 about all the boxes of bottles proper on the floor. Thus the wagon 

 body may hold fifteen boxes on the floor and five or more placed 

 directly on top of the first tier without any inconvenience in hand- 

 ling them. These twenty boxes weigh, when filled with milk, 

 bottles, and ice, about 1,400 pounds and constitute a load in a hilly 

 city for two horses. In the wagons built under our direction there 

 is a round hole cut in each side of the top, a few inches above 

 the floor, about fourteen inches in diameter and just back of the 

 driver's seat. This permits of bottles being taken out of the boxes 

 in the wagon without requiring the driver to mount the front oE 



