78 ILLINOIS STATE DAIRYMEN'S ASSOCIATION. 



before it got there. This performance was so unusual it created 

 a great deal of criticism, and it was not until it had passed 

 through the experts in chemistry who pronounced it unadulter- 

 ated milk that the judges gave way to the admission of the 

 American product and gave the producer the praise and respect 

 he deserved for his cleanliness and low temperatui;e. 



Just one more word. I just want to say a word about the 

 transportation and delivery of milk, here is a point that is neg- 

 lected, and often by negligence undone the good we have done 

 by taking the proper care of the milk on the farm. The days 

 when the dairyman milked his cow at the door of the consumer 

 are gone. From a sanitary standpoint that was the most satis- 

 factory way of peddling milk. I might say perhaps that in 

 Switzerland in the country they are still practicing that method 

 in delivering milk. They have a co-operative system of pas- 

 teurizing their cows. They hire one man to take their cows up 

 on the Alps on certain pastures and the creamery is right there 

 and every afternoon the cows come to the door of that factory 

 and are milked there and the pail of milk is poured into the vat. 

 That is one of the reasons why the Swiss cheese has obtained 

 such a reputation. 



Now the handling of milk in unclean cans and the peddling 

 of it in an old democrat wagon declared unworthy for any pur- 

 pose is a practice not in harmony with sanitation. The selling 

 of milk through the grocery store and upon its arrival put in a 

 dark corner in unclean utensils is a practice still more unsatis- 

 factory, and yet these practices are still in use in many of our 

 cities. 



Unless the milk is taken to the bottling plant or to the fac- 

 tory, the milk that is used for direct consumption ought to be 

 bottled on the farm and delivered in bottles. That is the only 

 proper way of delivering milk for consumption. The bottling 

 plants have done a great deal toward raising the sanitary condi- 

 tion of milk, and yet even as perfect as their equipment is, if they 

 do not receive milk that has been properly taken care of, even 

 they cannot turn out pure milk. 



All the filtering, all the sterilizing or all the pasteurizing 



