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son of Massachusetts, it gives me a good deal of satisfaction 

 to be here at this meeting, and to know that the Board is 

 recognizing the importance of the market milk business by- 

 giving one of its sessions to the subject of market milk. It 

 was also a matter of a good deal of satisfaction and pride to 

 me, as a son of Massachusetts, in looking over the November 

 " Review of Reviews," in an article headed " The milk sup- 

 ply as a national problem," to see that one of the leading 

 magazines of the day thought that this subject of market milk 

 was of enough importance to give it space in its pages, and 

 also to treat it as a national problem, because my work 

 in a great many different cities has emphasized that phase 

 of it in my mind. But where I was particularly gratified 

 was to find this : " Massachusetts was really the first Com- 

 monwealth to take official action looking toward the purifica- 

 tion of the milk supply, and Boston is the pioneer of all 

 American cities in securing the benefit of milk inspection." 

 So that our State of Massachusetts, in which we all take so 

 much pride, it would seem from that article stands promi- 

 nent, stands pre-eminent among the States of the Union in 

 the attention that is given to the market milk supply. I 

 occasionally read in the papers of a little friction now and 

 then between the producers and the Board of Health in this 

 matter of milk inspection which is so favorably noticed in 

 this magazine ; and I have studied that a ' little, I have 

 spent a number of days with the Board of Health inspector, 

 studying his methods, and it seems to me, if any criticism 

 at all is to be made, it is more in the matter of detail than 

 otherwise. That is, the inspector goes to a man's place and 

 looks it over, and the man says, " Do you find everything all 

 right here ? " and the inspector says, " That isn't for me to 

 say; I must make my report to the secretary, and if it isn't 

 all right, you will find out from him." I have been doing a 

 great deal of work in inspecting dairies, and with the score 

 card, in many different States and under a great many differ- 

 ent conditions; and my theory is, as Mr. Lane has said, that 

 the inspector ought to be a teacher and a friend to the pro- 

 ducer, rather than a person holding a club over him ; and it 

 seems to me if the Board of Health should modify its meth- 



