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The two main lines on which such establishments may be
managed are the following:—
1. Appropriate mixing with sugar, water and cream (so-called
"humanizing" ) of milk obtained in bulk from wholesale
sources; sterilizing in air-tight bottles, each containing
sufficient for one feed; retailing to the public, either from
the sterilizing depot or from distributing stations in
various parts of the district.
2. Involves the maintenance of a herd of disease free cows and
a well appointed dairy farm, where every possible source
of contamination of the milk, during and after milking, is
removed. The milk should be received from the cow in
previously sterilized bottles, which should be immediately
sealed and chilled. They should then be distributed
without delay and marked " pure untreated cow's milk."
The latter method is the ideal one for securing pure clean milk—
in contradistinction to sterilized or treated milk. It is not, so far as
I am aware, employed as yet in any municipal depot.
A process like the former tends to produce much the same moral
effect on the mind of the dairy farmer as formerly did the addition
of boric acid and formaline to milk—it demonstrates to him that
clean milk is not absolutely necessary and, in fact, may be got on
very well without. The latter method on the other hand, would, in
addition to securing good milk to the purchaser, be an object lesson
to every dairy farmer in the country, of what could be effected in
the way of milk preservation by simple cleanliness.
The following are the advantages claimed for municipal milk
depots as established in this country:—
1. They provide a germ free preparation of milk suitable to the
wants of young infants.