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Title: The modern milk problem in sanitation, economics, and agriculture
Year: 1917 (1910s)
Authors: MacNutt, Joseph Scott, 1885-
Subjects: Milk supply
Publisher: New York, The Macmillan company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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with a bacteria count under 30,000 at timeof delivery was one and one-half cents a quart,—anamount which certainly cannot be considered excessive.* Certified milk, owing to its requirements, whichare out of reach of the rank and file of farmers, and itssmall volume of production, costs on the average 6cents more than ordinary market milk. But here ismilk of the highest grade, at a moderate cost, requiringfor its production only an ordinary stable and equipment,healthy cows properly cared for (tuberculin-tested if themilk is to be sold raw), healthy milkers, and the exerciseof exceedingly simple sanitary precautions. (For further details the reader is referred to thefuller account of the North system in Appendix C,where a list of Dr. Norths publications is also given.) * If a non-tuberculin-tested but pasteurized clean milk be desired,the extra cost would be, on this basis, not over one cent. Milk can becommercially pasteurized for Ic. or less per quart (see Appendix D). ^ CO r^ S ^
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