MILK FOR INFANT FEEDING. 15 1 



standard has been set and adhered to, but for the public milk 

 supply it has not hitherto been attempted. Whether such a 

 method of general milk analysis will ever be adopted is at 

 least doubtful. 



Special Milk. In many cases the sale of special milk for 

 children's feeding is allowed and regulated by extra precau- 

 tions. It is recognized by the public authorities that for 

 infant feeding the milk should be of a higher character, so 

 far as concerns purity, than for the general milk consump- 

 tion. For this reason the milk designed for infant feeding 

 must be obtained under more stringent rules. The dairies 

 which produce such milk are regulated even more strictly 

 than others ; frequently even the food which the cow is allowed 

 to eat and the personal habits of the attendants, in the dairy 

 are considered in the rules made for the production of such 

 milk. 



Of course these various rules are usually only advisory 

 and not mandatory. Indeed, it is quite impossible to enforce 

 many of them. While the public authorities may make rules 

 for the conditions in the dairy, and may insist that no 

 cow suffering from a certain disease should be allowed 

 to furnish milk for the public, it is quite impossible for the 

 milk inspectors to enforce these rules. It could only be done 

 by constant visits and veterinary examinations upon all 

 farms, and this has been practically impossible. Indeed, the 

 inspection usually ends .with the examinations of the milk 

 supply and is rarely if ever followed up by a dairy inspection. 

 Without such dairy inspection the enforcement of these rules 

 must be left to the voluntary cooperation of the milk pro- 

 ducer. The only instances where such dairy inspection has 

 been successfully adopted have been where large distributing 

 concerns have, from their own initiative, organized such a 

 milk inspection for the purpose of protecting their milk, and 

 in cases where the milk producers themselves combine to 

 welcome such an inspection for the purpose of being able to 



