The modern milk problem in sanitation, economics, and agriculture . u->-u^^^° fAR/Ws COUNTRY MILK PLANTOR COLLECTING POINT. Fig. 4. Systems of Milk SupplyUpper figure: simple or undeveloped state, small communities. Eachdairyman retails his own supply, sometimes drawing from his neigh-bors. Lower figure: developed state, under city conditions. Milkdepots for centralizing such operations as collection, pasteurizing,bottUng, and transferring milk by wholesale are in this case aneconomic necessity. In many communities a mixture of the twosystems exists. 38 THE MODERN MILK PROBLEM production pr


The modern milk problem in sanitation, economics, and agriculture . u->-u^^^° fAR/Ws COUNTRY MILK PLANTOR COLLECTING POINT. Fig. 4. Systems of Milk SupplyUpper figure: simple or undeveloped state, small communities. Eachdairyman retails his own supply, sometimes drawing from his neigh-bors. Lower figure: developed state, under city conditions. Milkdepots for centralizing such operations as collection, pasteurizing,bottUng, and transferring milk by wholesale are in this case aneconomic necessity. In many communities a mixture of the twosystems exists. 38 THE MODERN MILK PROBLEM production prevail to a large extent, with the moderndisadvantages and dangers added to them. In this final form of milk supply the producer may haveno idea whatever of the final destination of his milk; andthe consumer, as a rule, neither knows nor cares where themilk which he buys comes from. The personal relationbetween consumer and producer is totally lost, and themiddleman comes to hold the position of principal impor-tance, as the only person in touch with all. These circum-stances, and the very size of the system, tend to make


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