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Feeding of Children," by Dr. Holt. This little book costs 

 only 50 cents, and every mother should read it and practice 

 what it teaches. 



The law given below is the one in force in the city of 

 Montgomery, Ala. The minimum limit for milk fat or butter 

 fat should be 3.5 instead of 3 per cent. Furthermore the pro- 

 vision that permits persons who own one or two cows to 

 sell milk without paying city license or without having their 

 cows inspected for tuberculosis is very poor sanitary med- 

 icine. These cows, above all others, are most liable to have 

 tuberculosis, because they are so closely confined, fed family 

 slops, and are more frequently in close contact with tubercu- 

 lous persons. Every cow which produces commercial milk 

 should be frequently inspected and tested, once or twice a 

 year, for tuberculosis. 



AN ORDINANCE 

 To Regulatk the Salk of Milk in tiik City ok Mont(;o.mkry. 

 Be it ordained by the City Council of Montgomery^ as follows: 



Section 1. That all milk dealers, firms or corporations and 

 dairymen, who sell or supply milk in any way to or for the 

 people of Montgomery shall be required to take out an annual 

 license from the City Clerk at the rate of five dollars for ten 

 cows and under, and ten dollars for any number exceeding 

 ten cows; provided, that this shall not apply to persons who 

 have not exceeding two cows for family use, selling their sur- 

 plus milk to immediate neighbors. 



Sec. 2. Be it further ordained^ That no person, firm or cor- 

 poration shall sell, exchange or deliver, or transport, or have 

 have in his or her or their possession for the purpose of sale 

 any milk which contains more than eighty-seven and fifty 

 one-hundredths (87.50) per centum of water, or less than 3 

 per cent, of butter fat, and the specific gravity of which at 

 sixty (60) degrees Fah. shall be between one and twenty- 

 nine one-thousandths (1.029) and one and thirty-three one- 

 thousandths (1.033); and all milk of a lower grade or quality 



