The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-08-15
THE
 CITY'S MILK SUPPLY
How the New York Milk Committee Is Protecting the Cys Babies Through Milk Depots and Proposed
 Model Dairy
WILBUR c. PHILLIPS, Secretary New York Milk Committee.

, culous cattle from the herds. It does not expect all of its patrons to apply the tuberculin 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 these reforms That part of the milk which comes from cattle which have not been tested with tubercuiin will be pasteurized and sold at a lower price than the better ar ticle. A market for the company's milk will be found through tho seven infants milk depots now maintained by the milk committee. These depots, which on June 15 completed their first year of existence, already are providing milk to no babies this in spite of the fact that they are open only from until 12 o'clock in tho 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 distributed, which has produced remarkable results among the babies who have used 1t, but also to the educational work among mothers which has been carried on by the doctors and nurses connected With the depots. As result of this educa- ton, even the most ignorant mothers have come to see the value of milk as food and have been willing to sacrifice in order to get an article which will save the lives of their little ones. In estab fishing new depots, physicians and nurses will be provided. but they will not be made a charge on the company.
 What price will be placed upon the milk sold in these depots by the company has not been determined. Indeed. the fixing of this price is one of the most in- teresting parts of the experiment. At the start the price of the whole milk, from tuberculin tested cows, will probably be 8 cents a quart. This same milk, modi- fled, will probably be sold in graduated feelings at the rate of 13 cents quart.
 Milk will be sold raw and pasteurized, according to the prescription of the phy- sicians. This, the committee believes, Is a natural and automatic way of set ting the problem of the nutritional value of pasteurized and raw milk. In addi- ton to the modified milk and the whole milk, raw pasteurized, the company will also sell a cheaper milk coming from those cows which have not been tested with tuberculin, and in making which the farmers have not complied with the sani- tary rules laid down by the company This milk will be pasteurized The idea of the company in short, is to provide in It's stores any kind of milk which the phy- sical and pecuniary needs of any GUS toner anywhere may demand.
 One of the main features of the com- pany is it's educational motive. In this it will cooperate iwth the New York milk committee, which will publish and pay for ali bulletins, statements and reports con oerning the company and it's work. The creamery, with its group of farmers com prising model unit for milk production capable of indefinite expansion, will be used as an experiment station where ef- hciency of various sanitary operations, including the suppression of tuberculosis, and on the other, the cost of such opera tions, including their influence on the price paid to the farmer and the cost to the consumer.