80 STANDARD MILK 



NEW HAMPSHIRE STATUTE 



*'In all proceedings under this chapter, if the milk is shown 

 upon analysis to contain less than thirteen per cent, of milk 

 solids, or to contain less than nine and one half per cent, of 

 milk solids exclusive of fat, or to contain less than three and one 

 half per cent, of fat, it shall be considered evidence of adulter- 

 ation except during the months of April, May, June, July, 

 August, and September, when milk containing less than twelve 

 per cent, of milk solids, or less than three per cent, of fat, shall 

 be considered evidence of adulteration, or if, in the case of skim- 

 milk, it shall contain more than ninety-one per cent, of water 

 and less than nine per cent, of milk solids exclusive of fat, it 

 shall be considered evidence of adulteration. "^ 



MASSACHUSETTS STATUTE 



"In all prosecutions under this chapter, if the milk is shown 

 upon analysis to contain less than thirteen per cent, of milk 

 solids, or to contain less than nine and three-tenths per cent, 

 of milk solids exclusive of fats, or to contain less than three 

 and seven-tenths per cent, of fat, it shall be deemed for the pur- 

 poses of this act to be not of good standard quality, except 

 during the months of April, May, June, July, August, and Sep- 

 tember, when milk containing less than twelve per cent, of milk 

 solids, or less than nine per cent, of solids exclusive of fats, or 

 less than three per cent, of fat, shall be deemed to be not of 

 good standard quality."^ 



A standard of quality is right and just when based on a proper 

 foundation, and nothing can be more reasonable for such a basis 

 than the average quality of the product. In the retail milk trade, 

 the consumer usually pays- a fixed price, and it is only fair that 

 he should always get an average quality of product. To insure 

 this, our state has provided for boards of health and inspectors, 

 who are frequently to examine the quality of the milk delivered 

 by milk-men to their customers. No data is at hand giving the 

 results of such an inspection in this state. In Massachusetts, 

 the State Board of Health, since the present statute was enacted, 

 has reported about 6,000 examinations yearly, of which approx- 

 imately thirty per cent, showed the milk to fall below the 

 standard. 



'Session Laws, N. H., 1901, Chap. 101, Sec. 18, p. 609. 

 2State Board of Health, Mass. Rept.. 1901, p. 433. 



