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STATE DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



Approval of 



inspecting 



department. 



Require- 

 ments 

 for grade A 

 milk. 



Dairies 

 having not 

 more than 

 two cows. 



Sterile 

 containers. 



milk shall have the grade and whether raw or pasteurized 

 marked on the container or cap of a container in capital 

 letters not less than one-eighth inch long and one-sixteenth 

 inch wide; and provided, further, that milk not suitable for 

 human consumption shall be plainly so marked. 



SEC. 5. No person, firm or corporation shall sell or 

 exchange, or offer or expose for sale or exchange, as or for 

 guaranteed milk, any milk, raw or pasteurized the quality of 

 which is guaranteed by the dealer, without approval in writing 

 of the inspecting department, which milk must be of a higher 

 standard than that required for grade A raw milk. 



SEC. 6. No person, firm or corporation shall sell or 

 exchange, or offer or expose for sale or exchange, as and for 

 grade A milk, any milk that does not conform to the rules and 

 regulations and the methods and standards for production 

 and distribution of grade A milk adopted by the inspecting 

 department. 



Grade A milk shall conform to the following requirements 

 as a minimum: if raw, it shall consist of the clean raw milk 

 from healthy cows as determined by physical examination at 

 least once in six months by a qualified veterinarian under 

 the supervision of the inspecting department, and by the 

 tuberculin test by a qualified veterinarian under the super- 

 vision of the state veterinarian, and from dairies that score 

 not less than seventy per cent on the score card hereinafter 

 set forth ; provided, however, that dairies having not more than 

 two milking cows, and, which are found by any such inspecting 

 department to comply fully with the remaining provisions of 

 this act are hereby exempted from such scoring requirements 

 and from the use of the labels prescribed in section four 

 hereof. The tuberculin test must be repeated annually if no 

 reacting animals are found in the herd. If reacting animals 

 are found they must be removed from the herd, and the tuber- 

 culin test repeated in six months. All cows are to be fed, 

 watered, housed and milked under conditions approved by the 

 inspecting department. All persons who come in contact with 

 the milk must exercise scrupulous cleanliness and must not 

 harbor the germs of typhoid fever, tuberculosis, diphtheria or 

 other infectious diseases liable to be conveyed by milk. Absence 

 of such infections shall be determined by cultures and physical 

 examination, to the satisfaction of the inspecting department. 



This milk is to be delivered in sterile containers and is to be 

 kept at a temperature established by the inspecting depart- 

 ment until it reaches the ultimate consumer, when it must 

 contain less than one hundred thousand bacteria per cubic 

 centimeter. IFpasTeurized it shall come from cows free from 

 disease as determined by physical examination at least once in 

 six months, by a qualified veterinarian under the supervision 

 of the inspecting department. It shall contain less than two 

 Jhundred thousand bacteria per cubic centimeter before pas- 

 teurization and less than fifteen thousand bacteria per cubic 



