210 Milk Control. 



It must always be considered that the populace has an interest 

 not only in the procurance of unadulterated and unspoiled milk, 

 but also in having the milk marketed at such a price that it may 

 remain accessible as a product of consumption for the masses, and 

 if possible its consumption should be increased. Accordingly too 

 far-reaching, stringent requirements should be avoided, as well as 

 all requirements that cannot be met by the prevailing condition of 

 production, on account of financial and technical grounds. Healthy 

 dairy cattle and the best possible cleanliness of the stables and 

 surroundings are more important than special feeding regulations, 

 or requirements for stable buildings which the small farmer is not 

 in a position to adopt. In order to prevent too stringent, or one- 

 sided requirements altogether, the adoption of a uniform standard 

 would be necessary for the entire country, and each state could 

 establish its own regulations which would conform with the con- 

 ditions of that particular locality. The introduction of the terms 

 " inferior value" and "conditionally passed" for certain low 

 grades of milk would reduce the economic loss which results from 

 the use of the terms "spoiled," and "injurious to health." 



If stable inspection is inaugurated, a thorough organization 

 may conduct a supervision by which the owners of small herds can 

 also comply with the requirements. The present system of milk 

 inspection not infrequently fails to include such small dairies be- 

 cause the supervision of the entire milk traffic is extremely dif- 

 ficult, but with the introduction of stable inspection the enforce- 

 ment of hygienic requirements that shall include the small pro- 

 ducer will be found to be not only practicable, but also very de- 

 sirable. Dairy associations and contractors with co-operative 

 creameries should regulate fluctuations of deliveries and consump- 

 tion, so as to provide the best possible utilization of the excess of 

 production, or the milk which has been declared by the city in- 

 spectors as unfit for drinking purposes may be conditionally passed 

 if designated as inferior milk. 



Such a system has been adopted by the dairy association of 

 Hamburg, in order to meet the economic losses caused by the 

 stringent enforcement of the milk inspection regulations. 



The author believes that with legislative regulation of milk 

 inspection, and especially with supervision of the production, it 

 will be possible, even with the newly created conditions, to supply 

 the population with good, clean, wholesome milk at relatively low 

 prices. With good will and co-operative work, as well as with con- 

 siderate enforcement of the regulations, the desired goal may pos- 

 sibly be reached within a short period of time. 



