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middleman advocated direct selling. All agreed that " cooperation " 

 was necessary to secure their several ends. 



DOES DIRTY MILK CAUSE DISEASE? Undoubtedly it does, and 

 sometimes death, especially among infants. To the 10 men who 

 stated their disbelief in any danger from dirty milk, and to any 

 other who may hold a like opinion, we would say: "Ask Your 

 Doctor." 



WHAT is WRONG WITH THE MILK BUSINESS? Certainly not all 

 the trouble can be traced to Inadequate Prices. The production 

 end of the milk business is, for the most part, being carried on in 

 an unbusinesslike manner, and the producer himself thus takes rank 

 among the factors which prevent his realizing from his herd all that he 

 is entitled to. We believe that the time will come when every dairy- 

 man will find it profitable to produce clean milk and when he will be 

 able to turn to his books to prove the extent and sources of this 

 profit. The first interest of the State should be the industry which 

 feeds the State. The main dependence of Maryland agriculture is 

 the dairy farmer. 



We cannot believe that the present milk laws represent the main 

 difficulty, no matter how imperfectly they may have been drafted 

 or unsympathetically applied. 



Any one dairyman can of himself reform his own business and, 

 even at current conditions and prices, make it pay. How? Ask the 

 man who belongs to a Cow Testing Association! Of course, a man 

 does not have to join a Cow Testing Association; he can weigh 

 the milk, make the tests and figure the results for himself. But, if 

 he is to make money out of dairying nowadays, he must do one or 

 the other. 



Baltimore County showed an encouraging degree of enlighten- 

 ment and fairmindedness in regard to the latter-day features of 

 the business. Where Frederick County farmers had gone on record 

 as in favor of only about one-third of these things, Baltimore County 

 declared for 80 per cent of them. 



Frederick County produced its milk more cheaply and made 

 more money from its herds. Its production cost was only 3.5c. per 

 quart as compared to an average quart-cost of 4.5c. in Baltimore 

 County. And to this latter cost may be added 0.5c., the quart-cost 

 of "milk tickets," a thing unknown in the field of the Frederick 



