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matter of course and willingly pays it. He should be willing 

 to do the same for clean milk. 



A Word to the Producers. 



You producers should hold together and pull together in 

 this matter now when public sentiment is with you, and when the 

 price of foodstuffs and labor is high, and you have every reason 

 to demand a fair price for a good article. But see to it that your 

 product is clean and that it deserves the price you demand. It 

 is not for your interest to allow the consumer to get the idea 

 that this most valuable food product. Milk, is produced and han- 

 dled under dirty conditions. I believe that every dairy should be 

 subjected to sanitary inspection by the Board of Health, and I t)c- 

 lieve further that the inspection should be welcomed by every 

 intelligent dairyman. A certification such as we are giving by 

 the use of this score card, stating the condition governing Mr. 

 A's or Mr. B's milk to be satisfactory, will have a tendency to 

 be satisfactory, will have a tendency to increase the sales and in- 

 spire confidence. I believe that in the future it will be for the 

 dairyman's interest to produce clean milk and that he will be 

 rewarded for his efforts. 



Educate the Consumer. 



Poor flavored milk and short keeping quality is not alto- 

 gether the fault of the dairyman. This is particularly the case 

 where milk is not delivered in bottles and the customers put out 

 various receptacles, of all degrees of cleanliness, to receive the 

 milk. Many of these receptacles stand for hours with the dust 

 of the street accumulating in them before the milk is delivered. 

 After the milk is received, it is often set away with other foods 

 without any protection where it readily absorbs any odors present. 

 Even if delivered in good condition, too often it stands in the sun 

 for hours and rapidly deteriorates. When milk is received, it 

 is the duty of the customer to put it immediately into a cool 

 place away from strong smelling foods. The milk bottles should 

 be used by the customers for no other purpose than the storage 

 of milk. It is also the duty of every person using bottled milk 



