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of legislating and regulating for those of the well-to-do and 

 the comparatively well-equipped families of artizans, &c., 

 who could on the whole be left to look after themselves 

 with a certain amount of advice and assistance. What they 

 wanted to do was to legislate and regulate for those who 

 were not able to profit by those things, and all such 

 measures were not worth anything in fact they were bad 

 if they were going to make the poor suffer in order that the 

 better off and more intelligent classes might have the advan- 

 tage. That, he felt, was the most important element in 

 the milk problem, and anything that would raise the price 

 of milk must be most carefully looked at before they advo- 

 cated it. They in this country differed from the United 

 States in the fact that in a general way our milk supply was 

 a great deal better than might be imagined from reports 

 which one sometimes read in the newspapers. They knew 

 too well the difficulties of it and the disadvantages, but in 

 many ways it was certainly improving, and he believed it 

 could be relied upon to improve still more in the future. 

 They must not hasten the pace unduly by making too police- 

 manlike regulations. They had got to educate the farmer 

 and the public, and in that way they could do much to 

 improve the milk supply. If they did that gradually they 

 would be able to bring about an improvement without any 

 increase in the price, but the suggested drastic measures 

 would only make thinks a great deal worse. That was one 

 point in which he took exception to Dr. Savage's excellent 

 paper, because he said that if the price were raised that 

 would be no objection in itself. He (Dr. Fremantle) would 

 say that in itself would be an insuperable objection. The next 

 point was that in any measures they took they should see to 

 it that they threw the responsibility upon the right shoulders. 

 The responsibility must be thrown upon the dairyman, and 

 he was afraid that if they adopted such measures as the 

 general pasteurization of milk, it would be to the advantage 

 of the uncleanly dairyman, who would then be taught to 

 realize that he cculd rely upon those measures for getting 

 over the bad results of his uncleanly milk, and instead of 

 inducing him to produce pure milk, it would make him more 

 careless, because the milk bein^ pasteurized, the bad results 

 of their dairying would not be shown. He believed in 

 throwing the responsibility upon the dairyman, and let them 

 bring the responsibility home to him by every means in their 

 power. If they educated the dairyman they could get him 

 to improve his methods without raising- the price of milk, 

 and by doing that they would be gradually eliminating many 

 of the dangers in the production of milk. The way to 



