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under police power, and they include govern- 

 mental inspection to see that the rules and regu- 

 lations are being properly observed. The weak- 

 ness of this method consists in the expense of 

 supervision, and the consequent opportunity for 

 frequent evasions of the rules when the inspector 

 is not present. Much depends upon the natural, 

 as well as educational, qualifications of the in- 

 spector to detect vital defects, rather than unim- 

 portant violations. 



DAIRY BUSINESS. 



122. Quality of Goods. Both the national and 

 state governments, as well as cities under permis- 

 sion from the state legislatures, have frequently 

 enacted statutes fixing certain standards of pu- 

 rity for articles of food. While such regulations 

 pertain more to the work of food inspectors, rather 

 than to that of veterinarians, they may also be of 

 incidental interest to veterinarians. A statute fix- 

 ing 12 per cent of butter fat for ice cream was 

 upheld in Iowa; the court permitting the sale of 

 an article containing a smaller amount, but not as 

 ice cream.2 A city may, under the general wel- 

 fare clause, by ordinance regulate the conduct of 

 the milk business, but it cannot arbitrarily pre- 

 scribe that ice cream containing less than a cer- 

 tain percentage of butter fat shall not be sold at 

 all.^ Neither has a city the right, or an implied 

 power, to license milk dealers where the state has 

 attempted to regulate the business, and has re- 



2 State V. Hutchinson Ice 3 Rigbers v. City of Atlanta, 



Cream Co., 147 N. W. 195. 7 Ga. App. 411, 66 S. E. 991. 



