The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-07-31

SAFEGUARDING A cITY's MILK SUPPLY
How the New York Milk Committee Is Protecting the
 City's Babies Through Milk Depots and
 Proposed Model Dairy

poses to purchase a creamery where all pals and vessels used by farmers will be thoroughly sterilized and will be given out to them tightly covered when they bring in the milk for ship ment. Options on several creamerles have already been secured at prices ranging from $1,500 to $2,500.
 Inasmuch as the adoption of san1- tary measures and the testing of cat tie for tuberculosis are matters of cost, the Company will offer one ad- vance in price for the observance of simple sanitary measures. and an- other advance Nh price for the tuber- culin testing of herds for tuberculosis and the removal of tuberculosis cat tie from the herds. It does not expect all of it's patrons to apply the tuber- culin test and adopt sanitary measures at the start, but 1t does believe that an advance in the price of milk will induce many of them to institute theA reforms.
 That part of the milk which comes from cattle which have not been test ed with tuberculin will be pasteurized and sold at lower price than the essas arse1a k u bg found fSr tRS the seven infants milk depots now maintained by the MiIk Committee. These depots. which on June 18th completed their first year of existence already are providing milk to TO ba- bies-this in spite of the fact that they are open only from nine until twelve o'clock in the morning, that their facilities for milk distribution are inadequate and that they have dealt with only one article, namely. modified milk.
 This success has been due, not only to the excellent quality of milk dis tributed, which has produced remark able results among the babies who tiona1 work among mothers which has been carried on by the doctors and nurses connected with the depots- As a result of this education, even the see the value Of milk as a food and have been willing to sacrifice in or der to. get an article which will save the lives of their little ones. In es- tablishing new depots, physicians and nurses will be provided, but they will not be made a charge on the Com oany.
 What price will be placed upon the pany has not been determined In deed the fixing of this price is one of the most interesting parts of the experiment. At the start, the price tested cows, will probably be Sc a quart. This same milk, modified will probably be sold in graduated feed- ings at the rate of 1ac a quart.
 Milk will be sold raw and pasteuriz- ed. according to the prescription of
 
 believes, is natural and automatic way of settling the problem of the nutritfonal value of pasteurized and raw milk. In addition to the modi- fled milk and the whole milk, raw and pasteurized, the Company will also sell a cheaper milk coming from those cows which have not been test ed with tuberculin, and in making which, farmers have not complied with the sanitary rules laid down by the Company. This milk will be pasteur- ized. The idea of the Company in short, is to provide in it's stores any kind of milk which the physical and pecuniary needs of any customer any where may demand.
 One of the main features of the Company is it's educational motive. In this it will co-operated with the New York Milk Committee which will pub fish and pay for all bulletins, state ments and reports concerning the Company and it's work. The cream cry; with it's group of farmers com prising a model unit for milk produc- ton capable of indefinite expansion will be used as an experiment station where facilities will be furnished to demonstrate on the one hand, the ef- fciency of various sanitary operations including the suppression of tubercu- losis, and on the other, the cost of such operations including their influ- ence on the price paid to the farmer and the cost to the consumer.