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situation can be adequately dealt with in any other way. This 

 department has endeavored for the past fifteen years to educate 

 producers and to point out the advantages, both to producer and 

 to consumer, of clean and safe milk. ... At the present time pos- 

 sibly eighty per cent of our local supply is pasteurized, and we know 

 that this process is adequately carried out, as we keep an inspector 

 on the floor of each plant. A few years ago no pasteurized milk 

 was sold here. At that time a year never went by without one 

 or more outbreaks of disease, usually typhoid, which could be traced 

 unequivocally to the milk supply. Since pasteurization has come 

 extensively into use some four years ago, we have not had a single 

 outbreak of disease which we could prove was milk-borne. 



MILK SUPPLIES OF TEN EASTERN CITIES 



Several years ago the Jersey Bulletin * collected some 

 interesting information and figures regarding the milk sup- 

 plies of New York, Philadelphia, Boston, Cleveland, Buf- 

 falo, Providence, Columbus, Toledo, Hartford, and Burling- 

 ton, Vt., published in an article concluding as follows: 



In summarizing, it will be seen that the average price paid per 

 quart by the consumer in all the ten cities is about 7% cents. While 

 specific information regarding the price received by the producer 

 was not obtained in every instance, it is plain to see that it averages 

 close to 3^2 cents a quart, or less than half the retail price. In 

 other words, the farmer or the dairyman has to keep up his farm, 

 maintain his cows, feed them, milk them and see more than 50 per 

 cent of the final receipts go into others' hands, while his receipts, in 

 many instances, barely pay the cost of production. 



As to the tuberculin test, the average opposition to rules laid down 

 by health boards in this regard seems to be about 98 per cent; 

 though of course this does not apply in the case of certified pro- 

 ducers. The feeling of the farmer producing market milk has al- 

 ways been antagonistic to strict regulation by city authorities, and 

 no doubt always will be just so long as he is given no monetary in- 

 ducement to practice better methods. 



The fact remains, however, that the average standard of the milk 

 * Jersey Bulletin and Dairy World, Indianapolis, Aug. 23, 1911. 



