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Governor Hoard has stated we are behind the times in Penn- 

 sylvania in our interests as dairymen. It is time we woke up. You 

 eannot make pure milk out of milk that is contaminated at home. 

 Dairy inspection must begin at home. It docs very little good to in- 

 spect that milk after it reaches the city, or after it reaches the 

 creamery. You cannot Pasteurize the dirt out of milk. Mr. Reich- 

 ert brought up the question this morning that he did not believe in a 

 compulsory law. Well, I do not know; I have had a good deal of ex-, 

 perience with farmers. I know a great many men, unless you have 

 got something that will compel them to do a thing, will not pro- 

 duce a good article. It has to be compulsory. In my mind a law 

 that is not compulso^ is no use in Pennsylvania. I do not know 

 what it may be some other place, I think I can safely say, the 

 Breeders' Association will be ready to help you all. 



PROF. HILLS: The result of the inspection in our state has been 

 to lessen the amount of butter that is made. 



DR. BARCLAY: It seems to me that this question is one of para- 

 mount importance, and that milk, as all other products, should be 

 sold at its value. If we had a law that would compel inspection and 

 that would pay the producer the real value of the product, it seems to 

 me that would encourage and benefit the dairyman. 



MR. WAGNER: Possibly we might have force added to the State 

 Live Stock Sanitary Board. I would like to hear from Dr. Pearson 

 what the State Live Stock Board is doing in the way of improving 

 the condition and output of the dairies of the State; also whether 

 he could not give us some plan or suggestion by which we could im- 

 prove the product by adding to the force of the Live Stock Sanitary 

 Board. 



DR. PEARSON: This subject is one I am very much interested 

 in, and I think that I can see in this direction a chance for great 

 dairy improvement from every standpoint, from the standpoint of 

 the purchaser of the milk, the creamery man, and of the consumer 

 W T hen dairying was conducted in a simpler way than now, before the 

 days of co-operation, a fault on the part of one producer injured his 

 own product, but did not injure the product of his entire neigh- 

 borhood. Now, under cooperation and under the creamery system, 

 a few careless producers not only injure their own product, though 

 it sells for a lesser price than it otherwise would, but they injure 

 the product of their careful neighbors. Apparently there is no 

 effective way of reaching these careless men excepting by some sort 

 of inspection, and as Mr. Norton has brought out, there appears to 

 be no particular advantage in rules or laws of inspection unless there 

 are some means of enforcing them, unless some penalty is provided 

 for violation of the standards that are adopted. If such a thing as 

 this is carried through I should be in favor of a very moderate stand- 

 ard to begin with, but with the understanding that these standards 

 would be increased as rapidly as the conditions of the trade war- 

 ranted. In my work as State Veterinarian, I come across some 

 places where milk is produced that cannot but be of tremendous 

 harm, both with relation to the character of the producer of milk, 

 the milk value, and the product, and also with regard to its whole- 



