270 BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. [Pub. Doc. 



what can be accomplished by furnishing consumers with a 

 good article. It is the assurance that milk is clean and right 

 that counts in obtaining the confidence of the public, thus 

 increasing consumption, especially after the consumer has 

 become accustomed to paying the higher price. It is along 

 these lines that those in authority are working, and we trust 

 that the assurance of improved quality and condition of milk 

 now being produced in this State will increase the consump- 

 tion still further in the near future, and that the price to the 

 farmers will soon be such as will fairly recompense them for 

 its production. 



The milk standard question was agitated before the Legis- 

 lature last winter, and several bills were offered by inter- 

 ested parties, but none prevailed. AYe are of the opinion that 

 the day will some time come when milk will be sold on its 

 merits, and that fat content will be the measure of its com- 

 mercial value. We also believe that some way should be 

 provided to permit the legal sale of any and all milk pro- 

 duced by healthy, properly fed and well-cared-for cows. 

 We do not believe that the present milk standard law is 

 right, in so far as it calls for too wide a variation between 

 summer and winter milk. It would perhaps be better not 

 to have any variation at all. We are decidedly of the 

 opinion that milk from other States should be subject to all 

 the requirements as to its production which prevail in this 

 State. 



Elsewhere will be found a list of the prosecutions and some 

 interesting analyses of market milk as it is being produced 

 to-day, and also figures illustrative of adulterated and un- 

 adulterated milk. 



We are glad to note an increase in the price of milk, in- 

 dicative of better conditions for the dairyman. What is 

 needed to-day perhaps more than ever before is confidence 

 and co-operation between all parties concerned in the milk 

 business. If all will pull together, more milk will be con- 

 sumed, a better price paid and the producers properly 

 remunerated. Care must be taken, however, that no legis- 

 lation is allowed that will make the producer worse off than 

 he is at present. 



