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Limitation of space forbids further mention of conditions 

 in individual localities. A great many special investigations 

 have been made, some by the Federal Department of Agri- 

 culture, some by state or local authorities or individual in- 

 vestigators. The preceding condensed statements are in- 

 tended to be merely illustrative of varying local situations 

 and individual comment. 



COOPERATIVE PASTEURIZATION AT RIVERSIDE, CAL.* 



A cooperative pasteurizing plant which has many novel features 

 has been operated for some time in Riverside. While owners of 

 small dairies under the new law, may have their cows tuberculin- 

 tested, without resorting to pasteurization, it is possible that owners 

 of small dairies may desire to cooperate in the establishment of a 

 pasteurizing plant like the Riverside institution. 



Seven dairymen organized the company in Riverside, which was 

 incorporated with $20,000 capital stock, $8,500 of which was paid 

 in by the organizers. This capital paid-in stock was to draw 7 per 

 cent interest, payable semiannually. A sufficient amount of money 

 was borrowed to buy the property, build the plant and install the 

 machinery. The plant started operating in March, 1911. No 

 stock has been sold since that date and none is held by any one 

 other than a dairyman. 



Dr. George E. Tucker, city health officer of Riverside, says of 

 the operation of this plant and of its effect upon conditions in 

 Riverside: 



"Before this plan was started, eight dairies were selling milk in 

 the city, with eight wagons making two deliveries a day, and prac- 

 tically every block within one mile square was covered by each of 

 the eight wagons in the early morning and in the evening. 



" In July, 1910, milk retailed at eight and one-third cents per 

 quart. In November, 1910, the price was raised to ten cents per 

 quart. A series of tests showed the butter-fat content to vary from 

 3 to 4J/2 per cent, depending to a certain extent upon the convenience 

 of the water supply. 



* Bull. Cal. State Bd. of Health, May, 1916, 



