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isn't it about time for us to clear the statute books and start 

 new? 



Mr. RuGGLES. I think that might react on the contrac- 

 tors who buy the milk more than the farmers. 



Mr. Potter. Of course that wouldn't affect the local pro- 

 ducer, but if the outside producers had to come here and 

 subject their milk to the same test ours is subjected to, why 

 wouldn't that take care of that milk which Mr. Ellis says is 

 the trouble in the matter ? If they were required to produce 

 milk as low in bacteria as we do here, let them do it ; if they 

 can do it, let them keep it up. Why isn't it a fair system 

 for everybody who produces milk? What is the objection 

 to it? 



Mr. RoBixsox. It would seem that in Mr. Potter's prop- 

 osition the great trouble would come in the analyses, — 

 where they would be taken. If we had to analyze every 

 man's milk every day we would run up against quite a seri- 

 ous proposition as to where and when that should be done. 



Mr. Potter. I don't think it would require that every- 

 body's milk be analyzed every day. We now have a Jaw that 

 we shall not sell milk except with a certain amount of butter 

 fat, and there is a penalty if it doesn't come up to the stand- 

 ard when they do analyze it. If you made it a penalty you 

 wouldn't have to analyze it every day, but anybody caught 

 selling it under that standard would be punished. 



Prof. J. A. FooRD. Along the line of the remarks of the 

 speaker this afternoon, in answer to Mr. Potter, it seems to 

 me we want a premium instead of a penalty. That has been 

 the trouble, and I think Dr. North brought that out very 

 clearly. I would like to ask Dr. North how to handle the 

 tuberculosis question. It is right in our midst in the human 

 family and the bovine family, and it is our business to fight 

 it. If we are going to have more profitable herds we must 

 eradicate it. We none of us want tuberculosis in our herds 

 any more than we want it in our families. It has been 

 established scientifically that it is transmitted from the ani- 

 mal to the man. It is true the tuberculin test gives us an 

 indication of a very slight number of tubercles, that per- 

 haps might not be serious and cause death, but may go on 



