Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: need for an educational movement advocating an additional payment in return for the observance of proper hygienic and esthetic precautions, and it should not be forgotten that the improvement of the milk used by those who live in comfort and luxury tends to the betterment of that served to the poor. THE TRANSPORTATION OF MILK. The great distance from which milk is now brought to New York is hardly appreciated by the public. On the north, farmers send milk almost from the Canadian border, and on the west .from almost as far as Buffalo. When milk was consumed on the farm or delivered to a neighboring town, simple precautions sufficed to supply a fairly wholesome milk, but now that distances have become so great, much more care and thought must be given to its collection and transportation. The railroads bringing milk to New York designate two forms of milk trains— the long haul trains, transporting milk one hundred and fifty to three hundred miles,and short haul trains transporting it only from fifty to one hundred and fifty miles. One would naturally expect that the railroads would endeavor to bring the milk to the city in the very best possible condition. While this is true of some of the railroads it is not true of others. Some seem to assume that all they need to do is to get the milk to New York in a salable condition. If the inilk is transported very long distances great precautions are taken to preserve it, while if transported from adjacent counties hardly any attention at all is paid to it. Thus it comes about that some of the very worst inilk delivered in New York is milk brought from the nearest places. In the summer of 1901, the writer noticed that an ordinary freight car was left by the morning train on a siding about eighty miles from New York city, to receive...