Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1903-06-03

twice each month. No animal is re-
tanned that is not in perfect condition
or after it has reached a certain age.
The manager of the farm is a grad
uate of Cornell university Connected
with his office is small laboratory
equipped with apparatus for doing ex-
act scientific work.
1t is here that the milk is tested and
examined and other work in this line
done not only by the superintendent,
but by students who come here for
practical experience from various col
leges.
While each farm is under the direc-
tion of a manager, the entire super
vision of all the farms, together with
the laboratories, is under the person.
care of the scientific director Of the
company In addition to selecting the
managers and holding them RESPONSE
BILE for enforcing the rules established,
in regard to the conduct of everything
pertaining to these farms, he from time
| to time makes a personal investiga-
| ton of what is being done.
This farming on a large scale and
on strictly scientific lines did not
spring into being full-fedged, but was
| gradually developed from the success
of a small beginning. After much care
full experimenting a milk was produc-
ed so nearly germ-free that it was a
successful food for babies.
| Physicians had found that steriized
and pasteurized milk was not uniform
| ly successful. Also that no form of
milk could be used for all young chill
dren, but that it should be modified ac-
cording to the needs of the individual
child.
To meet this need and deliver, free
from pathogenic germs, the clean milk
which has been produced, it was found
that city laboratory was necessary.
Here the milk is received and physi-
clans prescriptions as to the relative
amounts of fat sugar and proteids are
filled. as druggists fill medical pre-
scriptions. and milk is also sterilized
or pasteurized if desired.
The room in which prescriptions are
made up has cement floors and walls,
and in order to avoid dust is lighted
by a skylight. The air is brought in
through water and kept in motion by a
fan.
The milk, modified, according to the
physicians orders, is put up in glass
tubes, each one containing the amount
to be fed at one time. These tubes are
placed in small willow cases like little
champagne baskets, and contain as
many tubes as are needed to feed the
child for twenty-four hours. The little
basket cases are sterilized each time
they are used and each tube is carefully
sealed.
Little children fed on this scienti-
fically produced, modified milk grew
healthy and strong. Physicians and
their patients become enthusiastic and
fund was raised in number Of cities
that has been made perpetual, ito fur
nish milk modified according to ply
sicians' prescriptions for the ailing ba-
bies of the poor.
Approaching the fact that milk pro
duced under scientifically correct con.
ditions contains less than 10000 germs
III CtLtn CubIC Ccul lLlilltltt, Wn1lS
AIRY milk has about 100000, doctors
began to recommend it for other uses
Finding also that it could be kept much
longer than ordinary milk, the demand
for the whole milk from these farms
for shipboard uses and ordinary gen.
eral purposes has steadily increased.
Although the corporation has beer
constantly adding to the number anc
size of its farms and enlarging the
herds, the demand is and has always
been in excess of the supply.
AS has been said, the first object o.
this scientific farming is to produce the
best possible milk. Still, the enterprise
is conducted on business principles ant
is business success.
The net yearly inceme is considered
fair return on the investment. In ad
dition to the fourteen farms controlled
by the company in this country, il
has three in Canada and one near Lon.
don, England.-New York Sun.