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of milk, cutting down the city's supply at one time to little 

 more than a third of normal, and threatened to attempt to 

 establish a cooperative distribution system through the 

 medium of the State Commissioner of Foods and Markets. 

 The boycott resulted in victory for the farmers, the dealers 

 granting the cent-a-quart increase demanded. 



NEW JERSEY 



Under a law reorganizing the State Department of Health, 

 provision has been made for the adoption of a state sanitary 

 code, which, when drawn, will include milk regulations. 

 These, at present writing, have not yet been published. 



RHODE ISLAND 



In 1915 a special commission was authorized by the Legis- 

 lature to inquire into the agricultural resources of the State. 

 A large share of the attention of this Commission was de- 

 voted to the milk and dairy problem. In a recently pub- 

 lished preliminary report * the Commission says: 



The situation in respect to this industry is serious . . . there is 

 general dissatisfaction, (1) on the part of the producer because the 

 dairy business is on the whole unprofitable, and (2) on the part of 

 the consumer because of the poor quality of milk furnished by the 

 producer. From the standpoint of health also there is profound 

 dissatisfaction. 



The Commission recommends measures for excluding 

 tuberculous cattle, for improvement of stock, and for in- 

 struction of dairymen. Attention is called to the decrease 

 in milch cows in the State and the tendency to go out of the 

 State for milk. 



* Preliminary Report of the Commission of Inquiry into the Agri- 

 cultural Resources of the State, Providence, 1916. 



