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United States is sliown by a report of the Dairy Division of the 

 United States Department of Agriculture. From this report it ap 

 pears that the amount of milk consumed in Philadelphia is much 

 less than it is in many other cities. In St. Louis and Louisville, 

 where the milk is admittedly of low grade, and where the cows are 

 fed on brewer's grain or brewer's slojjs, the quantities consumed 

 per day per inhabitant are 0.37 and 0.31) jjiiit respectively. In 

 Philadelphia, the quantity consumed is 0.4G pint; in New York, 0.76 

 pint; in Rochester, 0.83 pint, afld in Boston more than one pint 

 per inhabitant per day. There appears to be no sufficient reason 

 why more milk should be consumed in New York Cily than in Phila- 

 delphia. If Philadelphia should consume in proportion as much 

 milk as is consumed by the inhabitants of New York City, this would 

 give rise to a d(>mand for an additional supply of at least 150,000 

 quarts per day. This would necessitate the employment of, say, 

 25,000 additional cows, which would mean the addition of at least 

 1,000 additional farms, worth, with their equipments, approximately 

 |8,000 each, lo the business of producing milk for the Philadelphia 

 market. In other words, additional capital to the extent of |8,- 

 000,000 would find employment in this industry. 



Experiments made at the State Agricultural College in Maine 

 and elsewhere have shown that where milk enters largely into a 

 dietary, it is not taken as additional nutriment but is substituted 

 for nutriment in another form and usually in the place of meat. 

 This seems to support the belief that if milk were more extensively 

 used, it would not be at the expense of any local farm product, but 

 it would be at the cost of meat, the largest part of which, at 

 j)resent, comes from the west. With these facts in view, I wish to 

 suggest ll'.e desirability of a State inspection of dairy farms to be 

 carried out for the purpose of correcting faulty conditions that 

 exist that are a menace to the consumers of milk and that injur 

 iously affect the trade. Several of the western states and Massachu 

 setts have adopted this system. Tlie results are beneficial. Whether 

 the plan, if it wore introduced here, would prove to be usefiri or not 

 would depend, first, upon the character of the supervision, and, sec- 

 ond, upon the intelligence and industry of the inspectors. 



Expenditnres. — For the fiscal year ending May 31, 1903, the State 

 Live Stock Sanitary Board was allowed |40,000.00 for its general 

 work in repressing diseases of aninvals. Expenditures under this 

 fund may be classified as follows: For tubercular cattle, !p24.00C).00; 

 for glandered horses, $941.00; for inspecting tubercular cattle and 

 herds, $2,964.05; for insjjections for the puri)ose of suppressing dis- 

 ease otlier than tuberculosis and for vaccinating cattle against an- 

 thrax and l)lackleg. |3,035.84; for togs, marking cattle, for materials 

 for vaccine, tubei-culin and for shijjping, for cremating carcasses. 



