144 ILLINOIS STATE DAIRYMEN'S ASSOCIATION. 



165 degrees Fahrenheit. The Pasteurization of milk or heating 

 it to high temperatures for the purpose of kilHng bacteria is now 

 quite extensively practiced. 



Successful dairy companies supplying the purest milk, are in 

 operation in and near almost all the large cities, and their 

 success is due to the fact that they have taken advantage of the 

 points which we have mentioned, and others equally well known. 

 How much it pays the owners I do not know, but if we can 

 judge from appearances, it pays well. When it became known 

 a few years ago that a dairy farm in New Jersey was about to 

 conduct its business in such a way that it had the endorsement 

 of a large number of well known physicians, the people ot the 

 locality began to send their orders for the product of that farm; 

 it has been almost impossible to keep up with the demand, and a 

 few months ago, when I visited the dairy, the herd consisted 

 of 400 cows, and I was told that all the milk was sold at retail, 

 part of it at twelve cents a quart. Other instances might be 

 cited of companies working along similar lines. 



In order to put out a superior milk, always up to a high 

 standard, superior methods are essential and the cost is neces- 

 sarily increased, but this should be kept as low as possible for 

 there is usually an objection on the part of consumers of milk, to 

 any increase in the price; however, this is being gradually over- 

 come with the aid of physicians and others who understand the 

 many advantages of sanitary over unsanitary milk. Considerable 

 quantities of milk are now sold at advance prices, as ten and 

 twelve cents per quart. I have sold milk at thirty-five cents a 

 quart to parties who wished to have it sent to them daily by 

 express, while they were out of the city in the summer. They 

 preferred to pay this price rather than use the milk regularly 

 sold where they were, but concerning the quality of which they 

 knew almost nothing. Certain companies make it a regular 

 practice to send milk by express to distant points because the 

 purchasers do not know where they can obtain any made as 

 carefully in their own vicinity. 



A full description of a model dairy farm and the operations 

 conducted on it would be too long for this paper, but a few of 



