. Town and city. etts, Connecticut, and New Jersey. Some of ittravels four hundred miles to get to the city, while amongthose who send it there is every sort of man owning everysort of cow: men who are clean and men who areunclean; men who are inteUigent and men who areignorant; cows that are well cared for, sleek, and clean,and cows uncared for and neglected; cows that arehealthy and cows that are unhealthy. More than that, the inspector soon saw that, accordingas the men and cows were clean or unclean, the milkwas pure or impure. He also noticed how the milkingwas done. In some cases each pa
. Town and city. etts, Connecticut, and New Jersey. Some of ittravels four hundred miles to get to the city, while amongthose who send it there is every sort of man owning everysort of cow: men who are clean and men who areunclean; men who are inteUigent and men who areignorant; cows that are well cared for, sleek, and clean,and cows uncared for and neglected; cows that arehealthy and cows that are unhealthy. More than that, the inspector soon saw that, accordingas the men and cows were clean or unclean, the milkwas pure or impure. He also noticed how the milkingwas done. In some cases each pan and pail was scalded, eachstable clean, each cow groomed, while the milkmanhimself not only washed his hands before he milked butalso wiped the milk bag with a damp cloth. Indeed, in ?55 156 TOWN AND CITY such places as that Cleanliness was evidently themotto, for everything looked as if the owner had said: You microbes may starve to death before I 11 giveone of you a chance if I can help it. I am your A Model DairyClean cows, clean stables, and clean milk Milk from these model dairies, as they are called,is pure and sweet and safe. It is an astonishing con-trast to that which comes from what we might call the microbe dairies. Here the untidy farmer seems to sayto his microbes, Truly I m the best friend you have,and I 11 do everything to please you. In his stable, FOOD INSPECTION 157 therefore, the inspector ^aw straw and dust on ceiling andfloor, cows ungroomed, pans and pails unscalded. Whenmilking time came there was no washing of hands ormilk bag; on the contrary, with his hands as they were,
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