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in many instances were composed of 75 per cent, of farmers 

 and those interested in agriculture. If it were going to 

 cause these people to put their hands in their own pockets, 

 if they were going to provide the money which the Bill was 

 going to cost, how could they expect them to administer the 

 Act, if it should become an Act, in anything like the spirit 

 in which it ought to be administered? He ventured to say 

 that they might pass as many Milk Bills as they liked, but 

 if they were going to put more expense on the agriculturist, 

 he would administer it as niggardly as he possibly could, 

 and he would administer it in his own interests. He 

 appealed to any person at the Conference who had influence 

 with the Government in regard to the Milk Bill that they 

 should see to it that any expense that was caused should be 

 borne equally by the people who lived in the towns as well 

 as those who lived in the country districts. That question 

 had come before their public health authority only this last 

 year. His point was that it was more in the interests of 

 the people of the city to whom the milk was going that 

 their milk should be pure than it was in the interests of the 

 people who were supplying the milk, and therefore he did 

 not think it was too much to ask that the people who 

 demanded a pure milk supply should be asked to bear their 

 proper share of the cost of supplying that milk to the 

 community. 



Dr. H. L. K. SHAW (New York) said he would like to 

 inform the Conference that he had just received a special 

 bulletin, issued by the State Department of Health of New 

 York, describing what was being done in several of the 

 smaller States in regard to the milk question. He had 

 about 300 copies for distribution, and would be pleased to 

 give a copy to any of the delegates who would like one. He 

 merely wished to add that in his view the question was an 

 economic one, and they wanted to start at the bottom and 

 educate the farmer. They wanted to have a system of milk 

 inspection that should not be arbitrary in its methods. They 

 wanted to try and show the farmer where he was making 

 his mistakes to educate him and try to get him up to the 

 standard they all desired. The problem in England was a 

 different one to the problem in the United States. The 

 conditions of the farms here were absolutely different to 

 what they were in the States, and he could see at once that 

 the methods they had employed in the United States could 

 not be used in this country. What they really wanted to do 

 was to make a friend of the farmer and not to treat him as 

 an enemy. In one of the small towns in Albany about three 

 weeks ago the health officer called a meeting of all the 

 farmers and dairymen supplying milk to that little town of 



