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supply of our large cities has greatly improved in the last few years, 

 and even though the methods used in bringing this about have 

 been in many places strongly objectionable to the producer, the 

 results have directly or indirectly been generally successful; and 

 now that the public has become better educated to the value of 

 good milk, it remains for the farmer or producer to impress this 

 fact more strongly than ever by keeping up the quality, to the end 

 that he may receive for his milk not only what it costs him to pro- 

 duce it, but a reasonable profit thrown in. 



THE DAIRY SITUATION IN FREDERICK AND 

 BALTIMORE COUNTIES, MARYLAND 



All of the general positions taken in this book have been 

 strikingly confirmed in an intensive survey, made during 

 the summer of 1915, of the milk situation in Frederick and 

 Baltimore Counties, Maryland. This survey brought out 

 exceedingly important points, and, since similar conditions 

 prevail in many other regions, has more than a local interest. 

 Hence a summary account of it is here reprinted entire. 

 The investigation was made by the Women's Civic League 

 of Baltimore, in cooperation with the dairymen, through an 

 investigator qualified to deal with agricultural questions. 

 The findings involve an interesting comparison between 

 differing conditions in the two counties: at the same time 

 they may be compared, as a small-scale survey, with the 

 large-scale survey in New England by the Boston Chamber 

 of Commerce which has already been referred to. The 

 analysis of the sanitary and economic questions centering 

 about the price of milk is the pervading characteristic of the 

 report, which we quote without further comment : * 



The purposes of these investigations were two: (1) To secure the 

 point-of-view of the man behind the cow in things as they are in 



* Reprinted from The Town, organ of the Women's Civic League, 

 Baltimore, Md., June 10, 1916. The report is based, with omission 

 of some details, on two earlier reports. 



