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duction. But the art of producing the required milk must first 

 be mastered and applied ere a proper recognition of the added 

 burden imposed thereby upon dairymen can be expected or will 

 be made. This is a fundamental principle of all operations of 

 trade. A product must be first made ere a suitable demand 

 and market therefor can be reasonably expected. 



Many theories and schemes have been devised for this pur- 

 pose in recent years, but the practical working limitations still 

 remain somewhat uncertain. What has been done is now suf- 

 ficiently clarified to admit grouping the same under three heads, 

 as follows: 



1. Stable and dairy inspection. 



2. Pasteurization. 



3. Grading of milk. 



It is safe to assume sufficient familiarity abounds regarding 

 these to dispense with elaborate detailed statements thereof. 

 Such discussion will, therefore, be avoided as much as possible. 



Inspection is the most important measure, although derided 

 on many sides and in the last few years seeminglv belittled by 

 investigations which have tended to display a rather insignifi- 

 cant relation, if any, between milk produced under what are 

 usually conceived as sanitary and unsanitary conditions, the 

 fact nevertheless remains that rational inspection accompanied 

 by proper instructions from suitably qualified and authorized 

 officials still embraces the most efficient means of effecting the 

 desired improvements. This is so because the whole movement 

 is one of education and training more than any other. In this 

 way producers have all the advantages derivable from personal 

 contact and discussion with the instructors, inasmuch as the 

 legitimate sphere of stable inspectors is nothing more or less 

 than one of instruction. Inspection as at present performed 

 does not, perhaps, develop this conception of its function. 

 This is readily accounted for by the comparative newness of 

 the work. It was necessarily inaugurated at many points, men 

 poorly qualified, either temperamentally or by training, were 

 employed as inspectors and the methods, standards, etc., advo- 

 cated, were not clear and well defined. Such conditions if con- 

 tinued can have but one termination, viz., distrust and ridicule, 

 which we well know has resulted in numerous sections. 



