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the customer is served with poor milk. Many prosecutions have 

 been made along these lines and we believe much good has been 

 accomplished thereby. In some of these cases the law was not will- 

 fully violated, but in others, the milk would be drawn off and sold 

 by the glass until the cream is reached, when this would be drawn 

 into pitchers and used as cream. In some instances these restaur- 

 ants were buying milk as low as sixteen cents per gallon and a 

 gallon of milk will, as ordinarily served, make sixteen glasses. At 

 five cents per glass it will be at once observed that the dispensers 

 were making a profit of 500 per cent., which should be ample. In 

 some instances they are serving milk in one-half pint bottles, the 

 same having been bottled at the dairy and all samples of milk se- 

 cured by the inspectors of this department when thus handled have 

 proved to be of good quality, and we heartily recommend this way 

 of retailing milk. 



The muck-raker and the yellow journal have no place in dealing 

 with the milk question. Unreasonable and adverse criticism of the 

 local milk supply tends to markedly increase the consumption of 

 condensed milk, the public having the erroneous impression that 

 they have a much more sanitary and healthful product and ignor- 

 ing the fact that it comes originally from the same old cow. It .is 

 our policy to educate the milkman along sanitary lines rather 

 than to prosecute him for ignorant violation of the law. 



I have in mind one specific instance where a milkman was selling 

 milk in one of our larger cities and was visited by our State Dairy 

 Inspector several months since. The barns were devoid of win- 

 dows, uneven and broken plank floors, ventilated only by the cracks 

 between the boards of the unpainted side-walls and roof, cob webs 

 hanging all over the inside, in short, unsanitary to a marked de- 

 gree. Eighty cows of all sorts except good ones with long hair 

 matted with filth. He complained that it was hard for him to 

 make good milk, impossible to keep good help, and that he was 

 making no money. Upon advice of the Inspector he later visited 

 the dairy districts of Wisconsin, inspecting the dairies and their 

 methods and upon his return home he built a modern, sanitary bam 

 with cement floors, windows galore, an automatic system of ventila- 

 tion and a silo, bought a few full-bloods and the balance of his herd 

 grade cows of this same breed. Upon a recent subsequent visit by 

 this inspector on a cold winter's day, it was his pleasure to observe 

 the uniformly dairy type and the contented and thrifty condition 

 of the cows. This dairy-man said : ' ' I have solved the labor ques- 



