The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1915-12-07
New York City's Milk
Standard Should Be
Adopted BY Whole
United States.

SF'uiu uttOHlc TIE uHliOIh Stduu-
ard for the wrote United States.
While other cities have not been at
the task OF studying the milk ques-
ton very long, or perhaps have not
made their studies very thorough,
New York has kept right at II. What
il has accomplished will doubtless
benefit every city in the country.
Since New York city has adopted
the grading OF milk similar system
has been adopted by the state OF
New York and by Newark and Jer-
sey City. n. J.
Probably the creates OF all our
food problems Is the getting OF clean,
wholesome. pu.e milk from the farm
10 the consumers table. In order
to do this successfully. there must
be some established grades or uni
form standard By which the city's
milk be judged In most OF our
cities. however. there islno standard.
Health officials and food inspectors
work al cross purposes with the
dairics. It's confusion all along the
line. The consumer pays the same
price Tor different grades OF milk in
many cities inside New York. Ger
tined milk" ia these cities means
very little rs there is no grade, no
standard New York has It's uniform
standard which, adoIsed a such
throughout the country. would save
tne consumers throughout the Unit
ID States no mean sum OF money
4 word about New Yorks milk
standards and how she has worked
To secure pure, graded milk for lit
tie New Workers. and big ones, too.
The city H. unique I'm being muniei
pality which has undertaken t0 sup
erviso practically all OF its own milk
supply all the way from the COW Ia
the consumer. II does not seek 60
shift the blame for bad conditions
upon this and that individual, but
has taken the entire responsibility
upon its own broad shoulders WhcI
the housewife reading this article
learns that nearly all OF the
farms on which tho city's milk sup
ply is produced arc located outside
the city limits aud more than 5000
Of them outside tie state OF New
York. she will realize just how stu
pendou- ia The task which lies upon
the commissioner and the depart
ment The Board OF Health has The
power to adopt sanitary code with
cut the concurImg vote OF any other
municipal authority, and this code
has the full force and effect OF law
III New York city, so long as its
provisions are consistent with gen
. cral state laws.
Surprising are the statistics which
tell us that New York receives on
an average $500. 900 quarts OF milk
daily from $1,000 farms, located in
six different sta jcs--New York. New
Jersey. PENNSYLVANIA Connecticut,
Vermont and Massac husetts. Some
cream IL received from Ohio and
from Canada Tho milk shed" GOV
ers an area of 30 600 gauare miles.
The milk is obtained from approvi-
mately 800 900 COWS and shipped
from loo centers over II different
railroads. tho shortest haul being 80
miles and the longest i25 miles.
when the milk for New Workers
reaches the civ II Is received AT -
different terminals eventually de-
livcred in $500 wagons and dis
pensed AZ 1900 stores II is esti-
mated that ahont l27 900 persons are
engas ed daily in handling the city's
milk supply. ~ least l2.350 dealers
take out permits and some 276 pas
teurzing plants are recorded In city
and country
Tho first essential in handling this
immense problem was the adoption
Of "A standard fer the grades OF milk
to be- sold New York to insist
upon the Observance OF certain sani-
ta"y regulations governing the
source Of supply; those handling the
cows and the milk in the dairies:
the places where milk was sold in
the city and the men who handled II
there.
The sanitary code OF The Board
Of Health proaibits the possession
aud sale OF unwholesome. unclean.
watored or alunerated milk and
cream and butter or cheese made
therefiom The code defines "adul-
terated" as
MIX containing more than IS IL
per contum ~ water or fluids: less
than II i2 per centum of milk
solids less than eight - per CEN
sum Of solids not fat. milk from
which any part of tho cream has
Oecn removed. milk containing less
than three per centum of fats:
cream which contains less than is
per centum of butter fat; milk or
cream which has been drawn from
animals within - days before or
Ave days after partHTtion: milk or
cream from milk which has been
drawn from ir finals fed on distil-
lery waste or any substance in
state OF putrefaction or on any un-