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for carrying on this work, they are pretty apt to produce more 

 trouble than good and will certainly produce constant friction. 



2. The value of dairy inspection is slight unless such inspec- 

 tion is frequent. There is little advantage in an inspector visit- 

 ing a dairy and, if he finds it in poor condition, making recom- 

 mendations and a report, and then going away and not coming 

 back for several months. The farmer is very apt to pay no 

 attention to the directions given him. To be of any efficiency, 

 therefore, the inspection should be frequent. Where there are 

 large numbers of dairies contributing to a milk supply, it is 

 necessary that there be a large number of inspectors, if the dif- 

 ferent dairies are to be visited with any degree of frequency. 

 To do this will require the expenditure of an almost prohibitive 

 sum of money. An inspector, to be of any value, must have a 

 good salary, for a poorly paid man is worse than useless. Con- 

 sidering the thousands of dairies furnishing milk to large cities, 

 all of which must be inspected, it becomes a question whether 

 a public inspection does not involve more expense than can be 

 properly met. This, at all events, is one of the obstacles to an 

 introduction of dairy inspection. Whether the money thus spent 

 would not be one of the very best investments is another ques- 

 tion. At all events, in the early stages of this attempt at intro- 

 ducing milk inspectors, these difficulties are prominent. 



3. The enforcement of the rulings of the dairy inspectors 

 has practical difficulty. It is one thing to have an inspector tell 

 the dairyman to clean up his barn and make various improve- 

 ments; it is quite another thing to get him to do it. Dairy in- 

 spection was first adopted by milk companies, and they have 

 had very little difficulty in enforcing their regulations by a very 

 simple means. These companies, in many cases at least, pay 

 for their milk a trifle higher price than the ordinary price, and 

 in such cases they can very easily refuse to receive milk from 

 any dairy that does not reach the standard which they them- 

 selves set. Such a method of enforcement is very efficient. In 



