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these carts many small tin pails of various sizes are hung. These 

 tin pails are delivered to the customer from house to house in the 

 same way as we sell milk in bottles. Some of these pails hold 

 only one ounce. They represent the smallest quantity of a dairy 

 product that I have ever seen delivered. The owner of an estab- 

 lishment stated that it was a great nuisance to handle these 

 extremely small pails but it was impossible to change the custom 

 of the locality in which they had been used for generations. 

 These extremely small pails are used mostly for delivering cream 

 testing 40 per cent fat, each one containing from six to eight 

 cents worth of cream. 



The details of receiving, handling and delivering the milk in 

 England are much the same as in other countries. The inspec- 

 tion of the milk by city or county authorities seems to be very 

 strict and milk wagons while they are on their delivery routes 

 are continually being stopped by inspectors for the purpose of 

 taking samples of their milk. The law requires that milk must 

 contain at least 3.0 per cent fat and 8.5 per cent solids not fat. 

 All samples are sent to London for testing at one central labora- 

 tory. 



At one milk establihment which I visited a system of check- 

 ing out the drivers was in use that was entirely new to me. As 

 each wagon leaves the central depot the driver must leave at the 

 office a sample of the milk from each can which he takes out on 

 his route. The samples from each wagon are numbered and 

 tested after the wagon leaves the establishment in order that a 

 record may be made of the quality of the milk sent out. This 

 helps to protect the company against the possible dishonesty of 

 any milk wagon driver in case his milk is sampled by an inspec- 

 tor while delivering to customers. 



A great deal more could be said on this subject of city milk 

 delivery in foreign lands, but I have already given a brief outline 

 of some of the customs in several different countries and I am 

 sure that anyone who is interested in dairying would find that a 

 study of the milk delivery systems of any large city would be 

 entertaining and instructive. 



