. Dr. Evans' How to keep well; . alf is sixty hours old beforeit is used and before the next delivery is made. Such delay in shipping milk so short a distance is unpardonable in thisday and age and it is* death to the babies. Shipping milk by steam railroads is altogether too clumsy a lines could do better. They can make as much speed while run-ning as the steam roads and by running over the citys system of passengertransportation they could deliver the milk at widely distributed points inthe city. While the electric lines were hauling milk they could haul in additioneggs and g
. Dr. Evans' How to keep well; . alf is sixty hours old beforeit is used and before the next delivery is made. Such delay in shipping milk so short a distance is unpardonable in thisday and age and it is* death to the babies. Shipping milk by steam railroads is altogether too clumsy a lines could do better. They can make as much speed while run-ning as the steam roads and by running over the citys system of passengertransportation they could deliver the milk at widely distributed points inthe city. While the electric lines were hauling milk they could haul in additioneggs and garden truck and other things that are only at their best whenfresh. CITY DELIVERY OF MILK So long as there is but one delivery of milk a day from the country thereis not much sense in hauling milk twice a day to the consumer. The milk-man properly argues that there is no gain in bringing back to the consumerthe same milk that he had at his door in the morning. HtRLb A Cheap Home-Made: let Box CotX 30 cer?t6; Ice, 2 centt pef db^. Department cj VjefcltK Cb«ca$c>^ Fig. 187. His argument cannot be disputed when the consumer owns an ice box,but it is another story in the homes of the poor who cannot afford the luxuryof an ice box. A twelve-hour supply cannot be cared for without ice duringthe hot months of the summer. If we are to have but one delivery a day why not have the milk deliveredin the evening instead of in the morning? That would put the milk into thehands of mothers twelve hours earlier and add mightily to the chances ofthe babies. It would have other advantages. The delivery wagons in large cities nowstart upon their routes at the unearthly hour of two oclock in the morningand are through in time to go to the railroad station to remove the fresh 518 MILK supply from the cars and haul it to the depots of the dealer. Everybody thenrests while the milk goes on aging until the following morning. It would be more sensible to deliver the milk in the afternoon and eve-nin
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