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basis fair alike to producer, shipper, and consumer. Milk, 

 the witness said, is so vital to a large part of any metro- 

 politan community that in some degree it may not be too 

 much to say that life depends upon it and a matter so 

 close to the life of the community enforces constant at- 

 tention. 12 



In the following chapters the aim will be to outline 

 the measures of sanitary control, to show wherein 

 previous and present regulation is inadequate, to set 

 forth the general economic considerations, and to de- 

 duce the main principles of equitable adjustment. 



