ILLINOIS STATE DAIRYMEN'S ASSOCIATION 61 



milk to supply this demand, and when the producer is taking 

 more pride in his business and making an effort to meet the 

 demands for a better product, the time seems ripe for some for- 

 ward movement for clean milk. 



The Boards of Health in our cities are doing excellent work 

 in passing ordinances to better control the healthfulness and 

 cleanliness of the cows, the sanitary conditions of the stables, the 

 water supply, proper cooling and storing the milk and delivering 

 it to the consumer with a low bacteria content, thus insuring 

 its keeping quality. They are taking more stringent measures 

 to keep the milk shops in a sanitary condition, isolating them 

 from the horse stable, wagon shed and living apartments. We 

 are receiving letters at the Department almost every day for 

 information along this line. 



That there is great need for a clean milk movement is evident 

 to anyone who will take a day or two visiting the dairies supply- 

 ing milk to almost any of our cities, large or small. Dairies 

 which supply us with milk which we have on our tables every 

 day. What do we find ? Out of 300 we have recently inspected 

 near one city, you can count on the fingers of your two hands 

 those in good condition. Dr. Walter Bonsel, Sanitary Super- 

 intendent, Health Department, New York City, stated recently 

 that of the 5,000 dairies they had inspected, just 5,000 were 

 ordered to make changes and corrections. Out of 62 samples 

 of milk taken in one day, six showed less than one million 

 bacteria to the fifteen drops, while the other 56 showed counts 

 ranging from 1,180,000 to 39,060,000, and twenty-three showed 

 more than 10,000,000. 



It is not altogether the dairyman's fault that conditions are 

 not better. I believe we have been getting at this thing wrong 

 end first. The cities have been endeavoring, largely through 

 enforcement of laws to make these improvements, but instead 

 of spending all their time and money telling dairymen not to 

 do this and that, I believe that much of the time and money 

 could be better spent by having practical and capable inspectors 

 go direct to the dairy farmer and point out the faults to the 



