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anteed milk, babies' milk, etc., is of equally high grade as 

 the orthodox certified quality. The term "certified" is as 

 good as any other, and has now taken such a hold that 

 it would be unfortunate to make any attempt to change 

 it. 



There is a certain lack of cooperation and need of reci- 

 procity on the part of the certified milk movement. Ex- 

 cept for a general feeling of accord and a desire on the part 

 of each medical milk commission to produce the highest 

 grade of milk, there is no special cohesion between the 

 various milk commissions and certified milk producers. 

 The American Association of Medical Milk Commissions 

 and the Certified Milk Producers' Association of America 

 are voluntary organizations which have done much to 

 cement closer association and to provide uniformity of 

 standards and methods. As an instance showing the lack 

 of cooperation and need of reciprocity is the fact that milk 

 produced by the Massachusetts Agricultural College of 

 Amherst is certified by the Medical Milk Commission 

 of Suffolk County, but is not recognized as certified milk 

 by the neighboring towns of Cambridge and Maiden. Nu- 

 merous similar instances could be cited. 



Not all milk sold as certified milk is really certified. As 

 an example I will cite an episode which occurred in Rhode 

 Island. In the city of Providence a certified milk was 

 placed upon the market. After a time, however, the par- 

 ties who produced it failed to make good. Consequently 

 the certificate was stopped. The dealer, however, con- 

 tinued to advertise his milk as certified, and finally ob- 

 tained from the legislature a charter which gave him the 

 exclusive privilege of using the term "certified" in con- 

 nection with the sale of milk. Meanwhile the secretary of 

 the State Board of Health of Rhode Island informs me 

 that this milk "has actually been below the average of 

 many of our better class of producers." Such a serious 

 menace to the certified milk movement deserves correc- 



