. The milk problem in St. Louis / prepared by Elizabeth Moore and Minnie D. Weiss under the direction of George B. Mangold. left unwasheduntil afternoon or even the next day and then washed with coldwater at the barn well. Such things are not the rule, but they areactual cases; and the milk from such farms is mixed with that frombetter ones, contaminating it all. For in handling milk, the chainis no stronger than its weakest link. Because there are betterfarms is no reason for tolerating the bad ones; on the contrary, itonly shows that the notably bad ones are inexcusable. It is herethat inspe
. The milk problem in St. Louis / prepared by Elizabeth Moore and Minnie D. Weiss under the direction of George B. Mangold. left unwasheduntil afternoon or even the next day and then washed with coldwater at the barn well. Such things are not the rule, but they areactual cases; and the milk from such farms is mixed with that frombetter ones, contaminating it all. For in handling milk, the chainis no stronger than its weakest link. Because there are betterfarms is no reason for tolerating the bad ones; on the contrary, itonly shows that the notably bad ones are inexcusable. It is herethat inspection would be most immediately effective, in eliminatingsuch conditions and practices; and evidently we can trust only toofficial inspection to ])erform this service for us. Collecting Stations. Some of the Inilk from the farms is shipped directly by thefarmer to a distributing dairy in the city. About three-fifths of themilk sent to the citv (and most of the cream), however, first passesthrough the hands of a collecting, station or creamery at the near-est railroad stafcm. which buys the milk from the farmer and as-. on a V) tf) snmes all further responsibility for its progrc>> toward the city. Themilk is gathered from the farmers in several ways. The farmerafter the milking- in the morning may haul his milk directly to thecreamery. Sometimes several farmers join in the establishment ofa route and the men take turns in hauling the milk of the co-opera-tors. More frequently one farmer on a route is paid by the othersfor hauling the milk. Whichever method of collecting is used, themilk is not under refrigeration while on the way to the the hot sun beats down on the milk cans and hastens thespoiling of the milk. Half of these creameries, including the largest ones, are ownedand operated by the large dairy companies in the city; from theothers the milk is bought by contract. At this point the history ofthe milk differs. Some of the dairy companies, and s
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