40 CONFERENCE ON MILK PROBLEMS 



State, a considerable number of cases against dairymen them- 

 selves, and against dealers whose premises are kept in such a 

 manner as to endanger the healthfulness of the product that passes 

 through them- 



There are some things which we should constantly bear in mind 

 in connection with this problem of better city milk supply. One is 

 that the inspection will always be necessary. What we need is 

 intelligent, healthful, sympathetic inspection. We need inspectors 

 who are willing to co-operate with the dairymen, and not the one 

 who goes in, so to speak, with a policeman's club and demands that 

 this, that or the other be done, and at once. We need more inspec- 

 tion during the morning hours and the evening hours, when the 

 cows are in the stable, and less inspection during the noon hour 

 when there is nothing there to see. And I am well satisfied that 

 such a system of inspection could very easily be devised in this 

 State. 



We need to appreciate that the price of milk is none too high. 

 The law of supply and demand will govern our milk supply, above 

 all other laws. When conditions are revealed, such as Mr. Stadt- 

 mueller speaks of in the vicinity of Hartford, where, within five 

 miles of the city where only a few years ago, farm after farm 

 had many cows upon it, the cows are gone to-day and those same 

 people are doing other kinds of work, it means just as much to you 

 and me as though we walked down Broadway and saw nine-tenths 

 of our shoe stores closed up. There is no money in it, and the peo- 

 ple are going into something else. That should be the best proof 

 that any reasonable person could want that the prices received by 

 the farmers have not gone beyond the proper point. We in the 

 city need to co-operate more with the dairymen and the dealers, 

 to the end that we may get better milk ; and some excellent ways of 

 co-operation have been mentioned here this afternoon. 



There is just one way I have thought of, which was not men- 

 tioned, I think, and I will refer to it. Milk should not be de- 

 livered at the time of the day or night that is most inconvenient 

 to every person that has anything to do with it. Why is it that 

 the people in New York City, who are so vitally interested in the 

 question of getting pure milk, demand a service which brings it to 

 their doors at two or three or four o'clock in the morning, where it 

 is left to stand in the alleyway, and where the tops of the bottles 

 are licked by the cats and the what else we know not, and where 

 the dishonest scamp can come along and take off the top of that 

 milk if he wishes to or, perhaps, the dishonest milkman and 

 substitute something else ? Why is it that they require that milk to 

 be delivered at such a time, when they could get the same bottle of 



