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going to another without detection, and that uniformity 

 of methods may be secured and friction eliminated. 

 Supplies originating in one State and sent to neighbor- 

 ing States for sale may be supervised by officials of the 

 latter on condition of not being allowed entry to the 

 State without approval of their quality and treatment 

 and access of such officials to the sources and the line 

 of transportation. Theoretically, the state might best 

 perform all the necessary supervision outside of the 

 limits of each municipality.* But many municipalities 

 do all or a great deal of such work, for state control is 

 undeveloped and immediate expediency has dictated 

 such activity. 



The state authorities referred to are those dealing 

 with health and with agriculture and animal industry. 



One problem [says Dean Russell of the Wisconsin College 

 of Agriculture] which so far lias not received the attention 

 which it should is the correlation of the work which should 

 be performed by the state. At present three generally unre- 

 lated state organizations may be concerned with the milk 

 problem : 



(1) State boards of health, which are directly interested 

 in public health problems. 



(2) State live-stock sanitary boards, or live-stock commis- 

 sions, which are concerned with the control of animal dis- 

 eases. 



(3) State dairy and food commissions, which control the 

 purity and wholesomeness of food supplies. 



Too frequently there is no correlation in the work of these 

 respective bodies. The milk problem touches all three of 



* This principle was endorsed by the New York Milk Committee 

 in 1913, in a plan advocating uniform state legislation fixing milk 

 standards. 



