The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1899-02-14
A Boston Milk Temple.

The report of the Massachusetts Dairy
Bureau contains cheering news for those
who hope that milk may yet come to be
stored and distributed everywhere in an
absolutely clean and healthful fashion. A
Boston firm is building a milk depot" Of
brick, iron, cement and artificial stone, a
temple Of cleanliness. Ice. that Industrious
collector OF dirt, will not be used, but the
milk will be made to sink gently from cow
heat to the judicious temperature by arti-
fetal refrigeration. The processes Of mix
ing and cooling will go on Id porcelain
lined watts and. not, az at present, In the
establishments of the milk peddlers, who
take it thither from the cars in those ugly
and often ill-groomed big cans which weaken
confidence in Arcadia and the milkmaids.
As the report says, "the individual milk
headquarters are not always clean, n
sometimes are in unpleasant proximity
to stables, sewers, &c" A good many
sufferers in his tow ave learned that
dairies nave a habit Of being in unpleasant
proximity to private houses, doubtless for
the purpose of discouraging that slumber-
ing Upon down by which man comes not to
fame. 1t is not on account OF any peculiar
fondness OF the milkmen for stables that
these are so often their headquarters, but
few persons care to have a can-banging
shop near their houses. The dairyman is
driven to the stables, so to speak. Against
porcelain-lined milk temples there will be
no protest, especially II growing civiliza-
ton brings the boon of rubber-tired and
muf1led cans.
After luxuriating in the porcelain-lined
,ot, tL;, ror,,aroI nnetno yni1E Ia 20 ha
drawn into cans or bottles for consumers,
kept in cold storage at known and uniform
temperature till needed, and sold to ped
dlers under a guarantee Of quality, for i'm
mediate distribution" By this arrange
ment cans that nave brought the milk from
the home of the COW will not be used In the
city, but returned, cleaner than the village
Of Brock, to the farmers. Milk in the orig
inal package is not always a blessing.
The addition OF a sterilizing plant and the
use Of glass jars would put the Boston
milk temple on a level with the best milk
cries of New York. The world grows harder
to please every year. Milk drawn from the
COW is not enough. The product must be
treated as carefully rs wine and is about as
expensive. See to what a pass PAsrEUR
and luxury are bringing mankind.
The dairy papers have been dreaming OF
ampler splendors for the milk temple. The
Dairy Bureau report quotes them as fore
seeing the day when every concern will
employ a graduated chemist and a veteri-
nary surgeon" when milk stores will be
veritable crystal palaces compared with the
ones in use to-day, n all the employees
will be uniformed and compelled to pass a
civil service examination" These are but
m~ole-eyed visions. Not only the employees,
but the COWS will have to take the civil SER
vice examinations. The milk will be sent
out in terra Gotta amphorD decorated with
portraits OF the sacred Egyptian COW
Hathor, Of 10. of Europa and of the Cow
That Jumped Over the Moon, the most
famous of COWS except Mrs. OLEARY's, Inc
owned by Mother GOOSE. whom the Boston
ians claim as one Of their literary glories.