60 ILLINOIS STATE DAIRYMEN'S ASSOCIATION 



ignorant of the most fruitful cases of unclean milk have advo- 

 cated from time to time most ridiculous things. For example., 

 in a Western City the Board of Health was asked to pass an 



C. B. LANE 



Assistant Chief Dairy Division, United 



States Department of 



Agriculture. 



ordinance compelling all dairymen to remove their beards. What 

 is needed is less painting of the pump and more work at the 

 source of the fountain. Less pasteurizing and sterilizing and 

 renovating and aerating, and more thorough careful work back 

 at the dairy farm. Not that the dairyman is always at fault, 

 for often the milk leaves the farm in good condition, but is not 

 properly iced in transit, or is mixed with some other fellow's 

 milk and the good qualities lost. However, the farm end is a 

 good place to turn on the searchlight. 



Now, when there is a general agitation of the subject 

 throughout the country, when the consumer is paying more at- 

 tention to his milk supply, when the dealer is looking for good 



