No. 7. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. M6 



PAPERS READ AT THE SIXTH ANNUAL MEETING OF THE 

 PENNSYLVANIA DAIRY UNION, HELD AT HARRISBURG, 

 PA., NOVEMBER 30, AND DECEMBER 1, 1904. 



OFFICERS FOR 1905. 



President. 

 Dr. H. P. ARMSBY, State College. 



Vice President. 

 AUSTIN LEONARD, Troy. 



Secretary. 

 W. E. PERHAM, Niagara. 



Treasurer. 

 M. E. REEDER, Muncy. 



Board of Directors. 

 W. C. NORTON, Aldenville. 

 J. H. REICHERT, Scranton. 

 H. W. COMFORT, Fallington. 

 M. P. SHOEMAKER, Greensburg. 

 Rev. J. D. DETRICH, West Chester. 

 THOS. SHARPLESS, West Chester. 



SCIENTIFIC BUSINESS. 



Improvements of Market Milk. 



By PROFKSSOK R. A. PEARSON, Cornell University, Ithaca, N. Y. 



Any person who will take time to look over the recent enactments 

 of almost any legislative body will find that a large proportion of 

 them relate more or less directly to the public health. Such laws 

 are becoming more and more numerous. They now cover a wide 

 range of subjects. The practice of medicine is regulated by law 

 because it is a profession having to do with the public health. And 

 no one except those legislated against, will question the wisdom of 

 laws aiming to suppress incompetent practitioners and their 

 methods. Dentistry and pharmacy are also subjects of legislation 

 because these professions have to do with the public health. The 

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