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forty-five degrees, in the market within thirty hours after it is 

 milked, and clean and sanitary all the way along down we ought 

 to have it provided so that the man who produces that kind of milk 

 and the man who sells that kind of milk will be protected against 

 the scamp who produces and handles those fewer number of streams 

 of dirty milk, and brings it down here and sells it to you with 

 just exactly the same claims for cleanliness, wholesomeness and 

 purity that the other man is justly making. Now, I do not make 

 myself clear, because, if I did, you would be enthusiastic about it. 



One of the main principles underlying the Pure Food laws of 

 to-day is that a food containing a certain percentage of preserva- 

 tives shall not be excluded from the market. The principle is not 

 that a food of a third or fourth or fifth grade shall be excluded from 

 the market. Those are not the advanced principles of pure food 

 legislation. The advance principles to-day are these : That foods 

 shall be true to their representation ; they shall be true to label ; 

 they shall be true to the claims that are made concerning their 

 purity. Then it is for the person who buys to decide for himself 

 whether he wants Prussic acid in his tomato ketchup. If he wants 

 it, he can have it. If he does not want it, he will not be deceived 

 into buying it. All the food inspectors do is to come along and 

 get samples of the foods and ascertain whether they are true to 

 label or not. 



Now, if that is true as to impurities in tomato ketchup and 

 olive oil and coffee and spices and what not, why, it is ten times as 

 important that such a principle should be carried out in the milk 

 business. I believe in selling milk for what it is, and in letting the 

 dealer and the buyer both know what it is, and in letting the public 

 protect itself just as it does now with all other foods. I cannot for 

 the life of me see why milk should be treated differently than every 

 other kind of food. 



To make this suggestion a little more concrete, I would suggest, 

 for your consideration, that legal provision should be made, wher- 

 ever you see fit, so as to enable those persons who are selling high 

 grade milk and so advertising it, to be protected against those 

 persons who are selling low grade milk and claiming for it the 

 highest honors. 



In a city not far from us, some time ago, a little investigation 

 was made and inspectors went out to visit the premises of those 

 dairymen who had signs on their wagons, and on their letter heads, 

 and elsewhere, to the effect that they were selling inspected or 

 veterinary inspected milk milk from healthy herds, and so on, 

 and it was found that a large percentage of them had no inspection, 

 and their herds were no more healthy than the herds of any other 



