ELEVENTH ANNUAL YEAR BOOK— PART IX 473 



positions. Free mail delivery, telephone service, better roads, the 

 automobile and modern conveniences in the farm home, all go to 

 make farm life more attractive. 



CITY MILK INSPECTION. 



This department we have endeavored to make more efficient 

 by appointing as State Milk Inspector, Dr. 0. P. Thompson, to visit 

 at frequent intervals the local city milk inspectors appointed by us 

 in the various cities of the state, and have general supervision over 

 them. 



The results of his work during the short time he has been so 

 engaged fully justify this appointment and we hope and expect 

 thereby to increase the efficiency of this department. We are handi- 

 capped in this work in that the law authorizing the appointment, 

 by us, of milk inspectors, in cities of 10,000 or over, was passed 

 nearly twenty years ago and the compensation we are allowed to 

 pay these inspectors was then fixed by law at $3.00 per day for the 

 time actually employed. I need only to remind you that the price 

 of labor of all kinds has advanced very materially during this time. 

 It has always been inadequate, and should certainly be increased as 

 a number of other cities having passed the 10,000 mark by the cen- 

 sus just taken will be demanding local milk inspectors. 



Formerly an inspector's principal duty was to collect samples 

 from wagons and stores, take these samples and examine them for 

 adulteration and the use of preservatives, and test them for-the per- 

 centage of butterfat. Such work was and still is very important 

 and essential, but we realize th."xt to get clean and wholesome milk 

 it is necessary to start with the producer and visit and inspect the 

 cows, barns, utensils and facilities for making pure milk by the 

 dairyman. 



To secure an inspector who is capable of doing this work is not 

 an easy task, for he must be a man with tact and judgment, able 

 and willing to give the producer a reason for every requirement he 

 may make. He should be an instructor first and a prosecutor only 

 in cases of willful and persistent neglect on the part of the daily- 

 man to obey the prescribed rules and regulations. 



It is the policy of the department to appoint local milk inspectors 

 in such cities, only, as evince sufficient interest in their milk supply 



