170 STORRS AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION. 
The first column represents the milk from their new improved 
stables while the second column shows the results obtained in 
ordinary old barns which were cleaned up and whitewashed 
and where intelligent care was used in the production and 
handling of the milk. 
New Barn. Old Barn. 
December 4, - = = = 2 = : 200 410 
December 5, - - - - - - - 170 385 
December 3) 5 - - - - - - 247 463 
December 10, - - - - - - - 397 506 
December II, - - = : - - = 150 8,565 
December 14, - : - - - - - 165 974 
December 16, - - - - - - - 460 15237 
December 19, - - - = - - - 350 833 
December 22, - - - - - = 447 893 
December 29, - - - - - - - 145 865 
Average, 5 - - - - - - - 273 1,513 
The comparatively low numbers of bacteria found in these 
‘““sanitary’’ milks at the time of delivery shows beyond a ques- 
tion that it is possible to supply to the consumer milk which 
carries a relatively low bacterial content. The question is at 
once forced upon us as to the cause of the great difference in 
numbers between “‘sanitary’’ and ordinary milk and at what 
point in the production or handling the greater contamination 
takes place. Most of the bacterial studies made of market milk 
have been made in the large cities after the milk has been 
shipped long distances and is of considerable age. Compar- 
atively little study has been made of the germ content of ordi- 
nary milk as produced by the farmer and delivered to the local 
consumer or the shipping station for transportation to the larger 
cities. In order to improve the sanitary quality of our market 
milk it is necessary to know the points at which the contami- 
nation and improper care take place. Believing that it is nec- 
essary to have more data concerning the condition of the milk 
as it leaves the producer in order to locate the essential points 
of contamination this Station has for the past two years spent 
considerable effort in determining the actual. bacterial and san- 
itary condition of the milk as produced and delivered by indi- 
vidual dairymen. 
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