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Show Dirty Milk Cine. The city milk trade la one that per mils tho greatest amount of untidiness untidi-ness simply for tho reason that tho consumers know nothing of the conditions con-ditions surrounding tho milk traffic. It la ofton asserted thai, could the consumers know In what kind of cans their milk Is handled, many of them would quit the use of that article of food nltogethor. The cans that go back to tho farmera are some of them so very dirty thst It Is Impossible to got the stench out of them even by scrubbing and steaming, and many shippers of milk have no steaming appliances. ap-pliances. The cans, Instesd of being washed out with cold water after use, are left with some milk In thorn and this sours and putrefies for a day before be-fore bolng removed. It must be remembered re-membered thst milk Is blood held In suspension and that It putrefies as does blood and flesh. Exports have testified that after such cans have been subjected to all kinds of cleansing cleans-ing processes, Including stesmlng In a steam chest, the smell still clung to them, snd must have remained with them after they were again filled with milk. After this process bss gone on for soveral months In aum-mer, aum-mer, what must be the condition of auch cans so used and so abused? |