The sun., 1900-11-17
TO IMPROVE ClTY'S MILK.
MILK SUPPLY COMMISSION ~"
DlfRYMEN DISCUSS JHE PROBLsH.
The Commission Includes Baths for Cows sno
Clean uanis and Clean FtnEernaiH 'o'
mixers In Its Suzgestions-The Da'r,"e"
suggest Ien-Cent MIX - The Baoy ies''

suggest Ien-Cent MIX - The BABY Ie"'
number Of milk dealers and agents VI
dairy farms were invited 10 meet the nik sup
ply commission Of the County Medical S"''es
at the Academy of Medicine. last nlght' 70
consider informally the best method OF I'M
proving the milk supply Of the city. Dr heht'
Dwight Chaplin. the chairman Of the cofnH's-
sion. presided. Representatives. OF about Ior'y
concerns Interested IN the milk business re-
sponded 10 the Invitations and there was
number OF physicians present
Dr. Chaplin read a paper which had been pre-
pared by the members OF the County Medical
Socetys commission, containing suggestions
for three ways In which the dealers In milk co.lo
botter the milk supply. The paper recon-
mended that the dealers see TO II that the farm
ers who sold them milk complied with these
conditions The frst suggestion was as 20 the
sort Of buildings In which cows should be housed
The commission thought that barns ought TO
have no cellars beneath them. no lofts above
the stable floors. and ought to be kept scrupn-
lously clean and whltewashed regularly The
second suggestion had TO do with the treatment
Of the cows They were 10 be bathed before
each milking, and we're 10 be treated with the
utmost consideration Ia every WAY. The other
suggestions had to do with methods Of nuE-
ling and tho care OF the milk after milking il
wa> urged thai those VIII" did the milaing should
be careful tlIat their hands were clean and dry
and that tholr finger nails were well Cleared
Dr. char 10 -ai0 that la did ilOI mean 10 ask
that these aug lestions lie made law. ] ," COM
mission merely, desired to ind out Whether any
of the wholesale and retail milk dealers would
do anything toward seeing that the faiIncIs
of whom they bought milk took up the sugRes-
tons, Opinions were ASKED for from the dairy
people
Rudolph Kessel. the representative of n large
dairy concern rose and reIsrked dryly:
~ want g. say for my reoIle that We will
ON a.
people viii lav us the Price We ask for the MIX
anerward l, is all 2 natter of price II the
lentl" want uarlor milk We will give II 70 them
Some Iarl9r4, said DR. Chaplin. are not TT
John : Palmer. another dairy representative,
had az elaborate arSument in favor OF milk
test Of lbs own invention. Everybody knows.
he said. that baby's stomach l. the. most
y Tor baby II Is III for AMI hing and BODY.
Instead ~ l0inS to all these complicated tests
and req,iremrnt.. why can't we arrange to have
two or thre" babies TO try the milk on. ~ IL
doesn't hunt thcIn. II doesn't make any difference
what sort 81 barn II comes from or how the
g; cow have pe.n treated i is good milk That
Has the eentleman." asked the. chairman.
two or three babies which he can lend US for
the Pqrpose Of the 'est- he advises -
Il haven't anv hatics.- protested Palmer.
bhishingly. I'm bachelor
thought as much. Observed DR. Chaplin,
A giizzled farmer. without rising. said that he
say anything in talk Of scien,!sts. but he would
like e. know how auybodv was goug 10 keep
a barn warm without having hay loft over
1t, un'es5 he kept 1t so close thut IL was un-
healthy v Is milk he said. was found q he
pretty good MIX. and he managed 20 keep the
hay dust out of II by NOT feeding the cows until
after milking ti'nn.
A woman Present suggested that II was
hard enough 10 get the farmers to zee that
their own babies and their mothers kept them
selves clean, and II was asking n great deal
of uhem 10 undertake to bathe their cows be-
fore each milking
On the whole, however. the dairymen seemed
to think thai there was chance for them 10
induce the farmers 10 take more care with
their mi TX They were sure that there was a
inarket Tor ten-cents-a-nuaIt milk in the city.
and milk that sold for 10 cents a quart, they
all agreed afforded q margin Of profit for the
most careful and rleanly Of farmers Almost
ali the representatives Of dairics present left
their names with the commission A. cO0peratOrs
10 the movement. Tho conmission hoIes
that ony consumer Of milk who thinks that
his milk is dirty will call the attention ~ the
coipinissiOn 10 his dairyman. IL was shown
et last nights meeting that great many dif-
ferent kinds u milk-einbalmine fluids. based
on formaidehyde compounds. are being sold
by dairy supply stores here. The commits
sion IL very anxious 70 nut those no ,ise these
prescrvatives in jail. but IL vas said last night
Tint some OF the fluid, used defy detection
by Quantltative analysis