much to improve
conditions. The publication of the scores of the different farms,
and the demonstration of the sediment test as applied to their
product attracts favorable attention to the good dairies and
unfavorable attention to the poor. This usually has an effect on
the trade sufficient to cause the negligent producer and dealer to
improve.

It is also becoming recognized that high grade milk can be produced
with very simple equipment. In fact the small farm is often more
successful in producing high grade milk than is the large farm on
which the work must be done by hired help for here the personality
of the owner can not make itself felt as where the producer is doing
a portion of the work about the barn and dairy himself. It is
becoming more and more evident that the chief factor in the
production of clean milk is the personality of the producer; he
should be one who gets enjoyment out of his clean stables and cows
and his high grade product.

The man who is producing milk for the city market is but one of many
and his individual efforts can not make themselves felt. The
dairyman who is marketing his own product is in a position where his
efforts to produce a fine product should prove of distinct advantage
to him in enabling him to sell it for a higher price than that
obtained for ordinary milk.

It should be remembered that the production of clean, healthful milk
is not a question of equipment, but of methods and of additional
work. The cows must be fed, the stables must be cleaned, the cows
milked, and the milk delivered to the consumer. If beyond this
unavoidable labor a small additional amount is expended, the
improvement in the product will be great. It is necessary that the
additional work be placed where it will do the most good, in keeping
the cows clean both summer and winter so that little need be done in
cleaning them before milking, the pails and other utensils kept
clean and sterilized, and the milk cooled as soon as possible and
kept cold until delivered to the consumer. The delivery should be
made within the shortest practicable time after the milk is drawn.
In order that the healthfulness of the milk may be beyond question,
the herd must be kept free from tuberculosis and some attention
should be paid to the health of the men, especially with reference
to whether they may be typhoid carriers or not. The necessary labor
should not increase the cost of the milk over one cent per quart. It
has