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that by long effort has improved its sources of supply, its milk plants and 

 stores where milk is sold, to the point where they can work without hard- 

 ship under a rather stringent law, in a city that is just beginning a cam- 

 paign for clean milk in the midst of crude conditions. The result is that 

 the dairy industry is financially unable to meet the newly imposed regu- 

 lations and the effort to improve the supply comes to naught. There is 

 the same result when the attempt is made to thrust the ordinance of a 

 big city on a small one. The writer once heard an enthusiastic physician 

 advocate, for a city of 40,000 inhabitants, an ordinance that was strikingly 

 similar to that of New York City. 



It ought to be unnecessary to state that an ordinance is stillborn 

 unless officers are appointed and money appropriated to enforce it but 

 those who are secretly hostile to ordinances they dare not openly oppose 

 often nullify them by neglecting to provide these very things. 



Type of Ordinance Proposed by Whitaker. As a satisfactory type 

 of city milk ordinance, the International Association of Dairy and Milk 

 Inspectors has endorsed that outlined by the late George M. Whitaker 

 which follows: 



"An Act (Ordinance) to Regulate the Sale of Milk in 







SECTION 1 

 The Requirement 



No person, himself, or by his servant or agent, or as the servant or agent of 

 another, shall sell or deliver or have in his possession or custody with intent to 

 sell or deliver: 

 > 1. Milk to which water or any foreign substance has been added. 



2. Milk which has been wholly or partially skimmed. 



3. Milk not of standard quality. 



4. Milk concerning which any misrepresentation has been made. 



5. Milk produced by diseased cows or by cows that have been fed unwhole- 

 some food or contaminated water, or 



6. Milk that has been produced, stored, handled or transported in an improper, 

 unclean or insanitary manner. 



SECTION 2 

 Definitions and Exceptions 



For the purpose of this Act the word "person" shall be construed to mean 

 individual, partnership or corporation; the word "milk" shall mean milk, cream, 

 or evaporated or condensed milk, so far as may be applicable; the expression 

 "milk not of standard quality" shall mean milk having less than 8.5 per cent. 

 of|solids-not-fat and less than 3.25 per cent, of butterfat, and cream having less 

 than 18 per cent, of butterfat. Skim-milk having less than 9.3 per cent, of milk 

 solids exclusive of fat shall be considered adulterated. 



Nothing in this Act shall be construed to prohibit the sale of skim-milk or 

 of understandard milk if the receptacle containing the same and from which it is 



