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could be applied here iu this State to our owu milk, and it 

 could be made general, Massachusetts milk would command 

 in the city of Boston and the metropolitan district a higher 

 price. That is what we would like ; but how you can apply 

 this system in a large way to-day is a problem. T\^hat we 

 need more than anything else, and I assume that Dr. North's 

 proposition carries that with it, is the confidence of the con- 

 sumers. With that you can get your higher price for milk 

 from the considerable proportion of the consumers. It is 

 true that in every large city a considerable proportion of the 

 citizens will buy cheap milk if they can get it an\^vhere, — 

 a low-priced milk, no matter how cheap it may be. Now in 

 the city of Boston there are organizations that are doing 

 their level best to educate the consumers, but it is a big 

 problem. 



Dr. George M. Twitchell (Auburn, Me.). Mr. Chair- 

 man, to my mind, familiar somewhat with the situation as 

 applies to the Boston milk supply and my own State, it 

 seems to me there is one step which is not perhaps entirely 

 neglected, but which is of far more importance than is at 

 first apparent. It seems to me the milk producers sending 

 milk to Boston have been delinquent in their duty in not 

 having established the fact that their responsibility for the 

 condition of that milk ceases when the milk is delivered at 

 the station. Does that hold in Massachusetts ? Have you 

 established that fact, or are the consumers charging the con- 

 dition of the milk back to the producer ? If they are, in any 

 degree, then it seems to me there is work to be done at the 

 other end of the line. Start in with the consumer's dishes 

 and means of caring for the product, and follow back until 

 you reach the point where the producer's responsibility 

 ceases. When you producers of Barre land a can of milk at 

 the station for delivery at Boston, your responsibility for the 

 condition of that milk must cease. Up to that point it is upon 

 your shoulders. Whatever gets out of it, or gets into it, or 

 becomes of it afterwards is not a responsibility resting upon 

 your shoulders. Have you made that point of distinction 

 clear, and have you established the fact, for I do not believe 

 there is a milkman who is unwilling to assume a responsibil- 



