36 . DAIRY TECHNOLOGY 



inspected farms, and ; although the District authorities 

 could not legally go beyond their territorial limits to 

 inspect cows or farms, they could refuse to admit milk 

 from farms not inspected. Dairy farmers wishing to 

 market their product in the District asked to have the 

 agents of the health authorities inspect their dairies for 

 them. 



Cost of Inspection. Many cities now have laws pro- 

 viding for the inspection of dairy farms and of milk from 

 the time it leaves the cow until it reaches the consumer. 

 The city of Washington spends for this purpose $20,000 

 annually. The Milk Commissioner of Philadelphia esti- 

 mated that it would cost nearly $100,000 to inspect all 

 dairy farms that contributed the 146,000,000 quarts of 

 milk consumed during the year 1910. The cost of this 

 inspection amounts to about 0.07 of a cent per quart. 



Geo. M. Whitaker, 1 in calculating the extra cost of 

 producing clean milk, finds that, in order to increase the 

 score of a dairy farm about forty-two points to seventy 

 points, in a 15 -cow dairy, an added expense is incurred of 

 5 cents per cow per day for labor. When new or additional 

 equipments are needed, the cost is still greater. Assuming 

 that the cows produce from 4000 to 12,000 pounds of milk 

 per year each, the added expense for labor would be about 

 one-half cent to one cent per quart. For the extreme cases 

 requiring new equipment, the expense would be still greater. 



Fear that the price of milk would be advanced has kept 

 many a city council from passing an ordinance requiring 

 adequate milk inspection, and it has also prevented health 

 commissioners from enforcing such ordinances. But such 

 an attitude is manifestly wrong. Even though it may cost 

 a little more to produce clean milk than impure milk, the 

 1 U, S, Dept, of Agr,, Bu, An, Ind. An, Kept., 1909. 



