308 BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. [Pub. Doc. 



food," because a judge there had decided that the govern- 

 ment must prove that the defendant intended to sell it as a 

 food. 



So far as we are called upon, inferentially, to express any 

 opinion upon the laws, we believe that the facts warrant 

 their existence. The supreme court of Pennsylvania, in a 

 decision quoted with evident approval by the supreme court 

 of this State, says that when an article is put upon the market 

 in such way that it may deceive the public, the Legislature 

 of a State is not exceeding its police powers in even prohibit- 

 ing the sale of that article, though it might under other 

 circumstances be a harmless and even desirable article of 

 benefit to the public. 



The law is to be defended on the broad statement of uni- 

 versal application that imitation is closely allied with deceit, 

 and that any imitation product should be side-tracked if it 

 gets in the way of the regular original article. 



The Educational Work. 



This work has been extended in several directions, with a 

 view of a broad foundation for the future and doing a present 

 good to all classes of citizens of the State. 



City Milk Supply. 



Considerable has been done in a study of questions relat- 

 ing to the milk supply of large cities, Boston in particular. 

 This has no great results to show as yet, but we believe that 

 a good beginning has been made. The following statements 

 will show something of the importance, need and possible 

 methods of such work. Early in the year there appeared in 

 a medical journal an article by Prof. W. T. Sedgwick of the 

 Institute of Technology, on the amount of bacteria in city 

 milk and the dangers which might result therefrom. His 

 attention was immediately called to the dairy bureau and the 

 powers given it by law, and he was invited to make some 

 suggestions. From this correspondence we make these 

 extracts : — 



Geo. M. Wiiitakek, Esq., Assistant Executive Officer, Dairy Bureau. 



Dear Sir : — The bureau might well investigate more fully the 

 origin and history of the milk regularly sold in Boston, and some 



