The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1935-09-27
GLASS BOTTLE GUARDS AND
ECONOMIES ON MILK
SUPPLY

The task of returning the milk
BOTTLE" performed daily by millions
of American housewives, saves mil
lions of dollars annually in the food
bill. If it were not for the sturdy
glass milk bottle, which makes 80 to
40 trips from dairy to home, the re-
tail cost of milk would be increased
cent or more a quart.
Delivery of the milk supply to the
housewives doorstep daily puts a
heavy burden on the dairy industry
of the country. The problem of
keeping the cost of milk within the
reach of all would be much more
difficult if milk had to be delivered
in a container that could be used only
once.
The original cost of the glass bot
tie is around four and half cents.
When you consider that the bottle
makes an average of at least 80
trips, the cost of the bottle figures
tut to be less than one-sixth of cent
FOR each quart. If single-use con-
a.ners were necessary the cost of
milk at retail would have to be in
leased, for the cheapest of these
cne-time containers costs approx
nately a cent and half per quart,
So the housewife, who sometimes
s inclined to grumble about the
necessity of making a bottle deposit
If few cents when she buys milk at
.er grocery store, should remember
hat she is performing service
With millions of other housewives,
he is helping to keep down the cost
of milk.
This is a vital service to national
health. Milk is essential in the diet,
particularly of children. Dieticians
stimate that quart of milk daily
upplies one-half the food require
nents of a growing child and repre-
ents only one-fourth of the daily
God budget. Consequently, any in
rease in the cost of milk adds great
y to the cost of living.
If the cost of milk is not kept
within the reach of poor families,
hardship is worked on them for it
annot be eliminated from the diet
without adding greatly to the food
budget to supply the foods necessary
% replace it. The alternative, of
curse, is malnutrition and sickness,
particularly among children.
In addition to keeping down the
cost of milk, the dairy industry is
llso obligated to protect the purity
If milk. Regulations of milk con-
troll boards add great deal to the
cost of producing and distributing
milk. Dairy herds must be inspect
ed regularly, barns and equipment
must be sanitary employees of farms
and diaries must undergo health ex-
aminations, milk must be pasteuriz-
ed and kept cool at all times
All this is necessary because milk,
being a raw food, is perishabl 1t
costs great deal, but the cost is re-
covered many times over in improved
health. When the glass bottle is
filled at the dairy, the milk is pure
and sweet The bottle protects and
guards the milk until it is consumed.
Glass is more easily sterilized than
any other container. The bottles are
passed through a series of cleansing
baths and emerge after a period of
thirty minutes chemically clean and
sterile. For this reason, most health
authorities recommend that the
housewife keep the milk in the bottle
until it is used. Sometimes the milk
is poured into some other vessel.
This household container probably is
not chemically sterile-certainly not
is clean as the bottle which is wash
ed for thirty minutes in series of
steriliZing baths at the dairy