296 THE MILK QUESTION 



structs, delays, resists, denies, prevents, or in any way interferes 

 or attempts to interfere with the city chemist, assistant city 

 chemist, or milk inspectors, or police officer, in the performance 

 of any duty herein enjoined, or shall refuse to permit such of- 

 ficials or others to perform their duty, by refusing them or either 

 of them, entrance to any premises where milk or cream is stored 

 or kept, or where cows are stabled or kept, or refuses to permit 

 any animal to be viewed or inspected or any milk or cream to be 

 viewed, inspected, tested or analyzed, or samples to be taken 

 for such purposes, or conceals any milk or cream; or any milk- 

 wagon driver, milk peddler, or milk vendor, who, with his wagon, 

 carriage, or vehicle containing milk or cream, or any person de- 

 livering milk or cream by the hand, runs or drives away, or at- 

 tempts to run or drive away, or conceals or attempts to conceal 

 any milk or cream in his possession, custody, care or control, 

 from any of the officers aforesaid on being approached, or hailed, 

 or addressed, by any such officers in the performance of their 

 duties, shall be deemed guilty of misdemeanor and fined not less 

 than twenty-five dollars nor more than one hundred dollars for 

 each and every offense. 



If the milk question had been of importance in the days 

 of the Decalogue, we perhaps should have had an Eleventh 

 Commandment which would have been simply: "Thou 

 shalt not adulterate milk." That covers the whole case. 



Mr. Whitaker has called my attention to the North 

 Dakota law, one sentence of which contains three hundred 

 and eighty words and is as follows : - 



[From Ordinance No. 314, of Fargo, North Dakota, Sale of Milk] 

 SECTION 18. Inspection of premises, etc. The milk inspector 

 shall personally visit each dairy and the premises from which any 

 milk or cream is offered for sale or sold in the City of Fargo under 

 this ordinance at irregular intervals, without notice, and at least 

 six times in each year, and thoroughly inspect said premises and 

 the stables and barns in which said cows are kept and milked, 

 and the places where any milk or cream is kept, and the vehi- 

 cles and receptacles used in transporting such milk or cream, and 

 the vessels and utensils used in connection with the same, and the 

 methods of handling and caring for milk and cream on said prem- 



