366 MISSOURI AGRICULTURAL REPORT. 



Mr. What are you going to do with the reacting cow? 



Dr. Luckey — We expect to require the owner to isolate the dis- 

 eased animal and not sell it for breeding purposes. If he is an honor- 

 able man he will not want to sell it. He will want to isolate it for his 

 own protection. 



Mr. Wright — I am very much interested in this question. It is a 

 very serious thing with us if the situation is as bad as pointed out We 

 always feed skim milk and buttermilk to our hogs. It is quite prevalent 

 with us in the dairy section. When anything goes wrong it is all laid 

 on the old cow ; and I am glad to hear the veterinarian take the part of 

 the dairy cow. But I suppose the disease is most prevalent among 

 them because they are kept a good many years longer than the beef cow. 



SOME SERVICE A STATE DAIRY AND FOOD COM^IISSIOX 

 MAY RENDER THE CAUSE OF DAIRY PROGRESS. 



(By Hon. .T. Q. Emery, State Dairy Commissioner, Madison. Wis.) 



A very valuable service a state dairy commission can render the 

 cause of dairy progress is to lead dairymen out of the maze of calf paths 

 in their thinking and practice, and into straight, modern, scientific path- 

 ways. 



A service that a state dairy commission may render the cause of 

 dairy progress is to procure the enactment of good dairy laws. Among 

 these may be mentioned laws fixing a minimum standard for milk and 

 cream; prohibiting adulteration of dairy products in any manner; pro- 

 viding for cleanliness and good sanitation in barns where cows are kept 

 for the production of milk that is to be sold or manufactured into human 

 food ; requiring cleanliness and good sanitary conditions in creameries 

 and cheese factories and their surroundings ; requiring that to be mer- 

 chantable, milk must be produced under clean and sanitary conditions^ 

 handled in clean cans and utensils and not allowed to become contami- 

 nated by remaining in barns where cattle or other animals are kept; re- 

 quiring all milk dealers, who produce their supply in such a way as to 

 call for the return of cans over railroad or boat lines, to empty those cans 

 before the milk becomes sour, and thoroughly wash and cleanse them be- 

 fore return shipment; prohibiting any false manipulation of the Babcock 

 test or any under-reading or over-reading of the same, or the making of 

 any false determination by the Babcock test or otherwise in the payment 

 of patrons of creameries, cheese factories, etc ; requiring that the standard 



