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ly built in 1905 an establishment costing $100,000 in which he can 

 handle 20,000 quarts of milk per day. The milk is received from 

 about 500 farms. 



The farmers producing milk in the valleys of Switzerland 

 generally live in small villages. The houses are built close to- 

 gether along the street. Each farmer may own from five to 

 twenty cows. These are kept in the stables connected with the 

 farm houses, two farmers often occupying opposite ends of the 

 same barn. 



The cows are kept in the stable during the entire year. 

 Grass is cut from the farms surrounding the town and fed green 

 to the cows in the stable during the summer time. 



The farmers in these small towns have an organization 

 whose business it is to buy and sell products of the entire town. 

 When Dr. Gerber and any other city milk supply man wants to 

 buy milk, he goes to one of the towns and makes his arrange- 

 ments with this committee which represents the farmers of .the 

 committee. The price to be paid for the milk is agreed upon and 

 the farmers deliver their milk to one central point in the town 

 from which it is dr&wn to the railroad station and shipped to the 

 cities. The price paid the farmers is about three cents per quart 

 delivered in Zurich. 



Dr. Gerber keeps a man employed constantly inspecting the 

 farms from which he buys milk. This man tests the milk of each 

 cow, not for fat but for purity, about once or twice a year. He 

 also inspects the cow stables and the utensils in wrieh the milk 

 is handled at the farm. The custom of keeping the cows in the 

 stables in the small villages makes it possible -for this inspector 

 to visit at least thirty stables and inspect between two and three 

 hundred cows per day. 



Dr. Gerber has many ingenious arrangements for handling 

 milk in his establishment at Zurich. One of the most striking of 

 these is the storage vats. These are cylindrical in shape. They 

 have very much the appearance of inverted bottles, the bottom 

 of which has been cut off, the milk being drawn off through the 

 neck which is the bottom of the tank. Four of these storage 



