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ing interstate laws, if the State itself can ship around from 

 county to county and keep it alive. It is ridiculous of New 

 York to say, " You can't cross the line from Massachusetts 

 because we don't like your brand of tuberculosis, but our 

 own brand is perfectly harmless, and we can ship cows 

 around New York State all we want, because we like our own 

 brand." That is ridiculous. Now if you can prevent this 

 practice you are going to stop the epidemic. We quaran- 

 tine a person who has "any other obnoxious disease, but we 

 don't seem to think it necessary to quarantine our cows. If 

 we did that we would soon stop the disease. I believe the 

 majority of the sick animals, if isolated, will get well, and 

 the solution can be brought about in that way. 



President Buttekfield. Dr. North, no matter how the 

 organization was formed, supposing it was co-operative 

 among the farmers, if 500 cows supplied milk at the central 

 station, would 1 cent a quart pay for the total extra cost of 

 the whole process, any extra expense of the farmers, the 

 interest on the money invested in the stations, the salaries of 

 the two men and the maintenance of the plant, — is that a 

 fair statement ? 



Dr. North. In that 1 cent a quart I didn't include any 

 extra expense at the station. It costs a little more to run 

 this kind of a station than an ordinary one. It costs the 

 New York st'ation l/o cent to bottle the milk, and in our 

 station it costs Ko, /4o of a cent more. But I maintain that 

 after the farmer gets the extra cent, the dealer at 9 cents is 

 making enough profit, selling the milk at 10 cents a quart. 



Dr. BuTTERFiELD. Supposiug the farmers organized for 

 this purpose, what allowance in the increased cost ought to 

 be made for the support of a plant of this kind ? 



Dr. North. One and one-half cents. That would be 

 abundant, more than is necessary. They would own stock 

 themselves, and it is a question whether they would put the 

 premium on it, as the money would go into their own pockets. 



Mr. Harwood. We would like to have the doctor tell us 

 whether the company who handles this milk found it prof- 

 itable, with all the extra pains they had to take ? Also how 

 many he has on his waiting list in New York State to go 



