The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-07-31
c. Phillips. Secretary Ne'
 York MILK Committee. ats fExclusive Service fThe Survey

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 The dairy farmers in the country
 around New York are going to have an opportunity to work with the
 s'farTners'' in the city in organizing model milk company. The idea of the new company is to provide means for extending the babies milk depots E. New york and to try out a method
 of milk production that VIII enable the ordinary farmer to supply good, c1ean milk at a price that the poor Of the city can afford-
 G Up to the present time. the New Tork AafIk Cor1mittee believes that xeformers have approached the prob lem Of improving the milk supply en> 41rely too much from the city stand with milk production mainly through ofdinances. legislation and the ex- Uensiso operation of making certified 5nilk Out of the two million quarts of milk which come to New Tora aao o,iarts are certified. :. The price of this
 milk however. is prohibitive for all hut Wel-to-do. In seeking to inn prove the rest of the supply, two
 I-sWholesale pasteurixation. which TT been opposed by many on the Hfoiand that. 1t would put the producer of dirty milk on an equal footing with the producer of clean milk and fbere6y postpone the institution of
 1e6ired sanitary reforms.
 z-Iuspection at the source of sup ply which is approved by all but is felt to be inadequate, owing to the dz1ry herds. and the magnitude of aupervising the production of milk at ag.oeo farms, with a limited force of re ~t.+ra ir, 4, 1affer vratfen fo Mr. Nathan Straus on October 15.1908 the MIX Committee believes that the so- Hutton Of the milk problem is to be found neither in one of these expe. Edfsrlts nor the other, but in both of k1ena. 1t also believes that clean knzlk, even under improved conditions lcau be produced at a much lower |cost than the fancy articles which now 'coxne from a few herds. This be- lief Is based upon careful experiments toarr1ed out by Dr. Charles E. North, and pr. A H. Stewart. bacteriologist of the Departnent of Health in Phil- adelphia which demonstrated two facts: First. that the wide open snouthed milk pail used by the ordi- mary farmer, is a veritable depository for bacteria of the worst description dnppping from the dirty, manure-coat- ed ndders, bellies and Hanks of milch cozEs; second: that taking such impor- fant sanitary operations as washing and sterilizinE milk pails, cans, and l0cnoTs f9CePIacleS out OI Ine IdE InerS hands. and having them performed with surgical accuracy at some cen traI place like a creamery, at once el- fuinates the many sources of milk infection on dairy farms such as in fecked water supplies, imperfect drainasea. priyfes. Kitchens, etc. etc 'ufaik drown from the same COW into the farmers own broad mouthed pail washed after his own method. contain ed from an average of 120,000 to 140,- 900 bacterial while milk drawn into a rsrrew mouthed pail absolutely ster- 1iEed at q central creamery and GOV cred with clean strainer cloth con- tained from 150 to 4,900 bacteria per c.c. The conclusion that Dr. North reached was, that if the farmer could be persuaded to use a narrow mouth cd milk pail. the sterilizing of which towether with other important sani- fafy operations could be done at a central creamery, milk averaging less than 10000 bacteria, that is to say equal in it's meteorological content to certified milk, could be drawn from the ordinary COW with little or no change from established conditions.
 The model Miik company which the MIX Committee is organizing, pro-