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scored 40 is that lie just bought it, and ho has a whole lot of 

 old buildings, and is working his way out of this trouble, and 

 in a year or two he is going to get fixed up. lie is a man 

 with plenty of brains and energy. I don't ask him to 

 sprinkle the aisles and the backs of the cows before milking ; 

 he thought that out himself. The farmers invent all sorts 

 of tricks to keep the bacteria down themselves, voluntarily. 

 As soon as you get a man inspired in his own mind to do 

 these things because it makes money yon don't have to com- 

 pel him to do them or ask him to do them or insist upon his 

 doing them; and it is not necessary to go out on any dairy 

 inspection as though sneaking out. The inspector is invited 

 ont by these men, who want to ask him questions as to how 

 to produce better milk. That is what I mean by co-opera- 

 tion. 



Mr. B. W. Potter. Do I nnderstand Dr. North to claim_ 

 that it would be practical in this State, for instance, for us to 

 abolish all the laws relative to the inspection of milk, and 

 simply sell the milk on butter fat and bacteria count, and if 

 we might, is there any scheme by which it could be done? 

 If that is so it is a revelation to me, and I don't know but 

 it is practical to do away with all these laws about inspection 

 of barns. If the party is simply held to cleanliness, and it 

 shows in the analysis, why do we need any inspection at all ? 



Dr. NoKTir. I think the only law we need in the dairy 

 business is that everything should be correctly labeled, and 

 we need only ins])ection enfnigli to see that they are cor- 

 rectly labeled. I am not here to advocate abolishing the 

 law or the boards of health. The thing to do is not to make 

 more law or use more force, bnt to bring up a business so 

 that the contract between the producer and the consumer is 

 a businesslike contract. If you want milk that is a better 

 grade have a better price for it. 



Mr. F. A. Russell (Methuen). Do any of those farmers 

 use a milking machine of any kind ? 



Dr. XoRTir. None of the dairymen who are furnishing 

 milk for me have sufficient capital to buy snch a thing as a 

 milking machine. It is a matter of interest, by the way, 

 to learn that in New Zealand, which is a very progressive 



