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with certain ordinance provisions and therefore are exclusively in a 

 position to supply a particular milk. This would place these ship- 

 pers in the position of dictators, whereas, under existing conditions, 

 the dealer is the dictator. It is not within the plan of the distributer 

 to permit a concentration of the present scattered sources of supply 

 that are working without coordination, largely without coopera- 

 tion, and almost entirely without organization. Whether, from a 

 public viewpoint, anything would be gained by placing the power 

 in the hands of the shipper rather than in the hands of the dis- 

 tributer, is questionable, of course. That the producer is capable of 

 assuming an arbitrary and arrogant stand, is evidenced by the milk 

 strikes conducted by milk shippers on two occasions. While it is 

 true that these particular strikes could readily have been broken by 

 the dealers, the public and the authorities working together, it is 

 questionable whether such strikes might not be used to the decided 

 disadvantage of the consumer, were the producers well organized. 



BROCKTON, MASS. 



The city of Brockton has for some years been conspicuous 

 for success in bringing about sanitary improvement of milk 

 supplies through regulation based upon bacteriological tests. 

 The city maintains a general municipal laboratory, the 

 Director of which, Mr. George E. Boiling, also Inspector of 

 Milk, several years ago wrote as follows concerning appear- 

 ance vs. results in dairies: 



Our experience in the supervision of our local milk supply has 

 shown us that the appearance presented by a dairy or the score it 

 obtained was not a criterion of the cleanliness of its product, and 

 that intelligent personal supervision by the owner of the detailed 

 work in a dairy essential to the production of clean milk went 

 further toward securing such a product than fancy equipment 

 turned over to hired help. Our motto became "The proof of the 

 pudding is in the eating," and when milk taken from the wagons 

 of the dealers when ready for final delivery to the consumer showed 

 a clean product, we did not insist on more or less costly changes 

 $t the dairy that regularly marketed such milk. 



