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be amplified to prevent adulteration and contamination, and 

 the law enforced by public sentiment which can only be the 

 outgrowth of thoughtful citizenship. 



I do not subscribe to the doctrine of my very distinguished 

 friend from the West, that the city cow is to be, even in the 

 far distant future, an established part of our domestic econ- 

 omy. I can see certain economic and certain mathematical 

 and certain social difficulties. The difference between the size 

 of the denticular orifice in a newly born infant, and the well 

 developed udder of the mature cow, would make that rather 

 difficult in cases unless there shall be a great modification in 

 breeding. And I imagine that the great difference in the 

 number of children and the number of cows in a given com- 

 munity would give rise to a difficulty that could not be very 

 well overcome, for my experience in the feeding of children is 

 that they require to be fed at about the same time of the day, 

 and I can see a difficulty that would arise in the order of prec- 

 edence as the children came up for their feeding. Of course, 

 I do not mean to imply that, in the development that is possi- 

 ble in the cities of the west, these things may not come about. 

 These things may finally be overcome, but, for the present, al- 

 though it is a consummation most devoutly to be wished, it 

 seems to me that it lies so far in the dim and distant future 

 that the practical carrying out of it is impossible. 



Our distinguished Health Commissioner and I yield to no 

 man in my admiration for the magnificent work that he is 

 doing throughout the State on the platform this evening, in- 

 dicated that the advertising of the quality of the milk would 

 go a long way towards the abolition of the difficulties which 

 lie in the securing of a suitable supply. I may be pardoned if 

 I have the presumption to suggest that, in addition to that 

 which is in itself doubtless highly beneficial, there would lie 

 this difficulty: If the milk was advertised in the market, why, 

 the cheaper products would be the very milk upon which the 

 poor people would take the gambling chance, and thereby be 

 liable to increase the death rate. So I think we must not only 

 insist upon having the milk marked and the receptacles guar- 

 anteed and sealed under state supervision, but we must inflict 

 such penalties for the violation of the law that protects us 

 from adulteration, as shall make it a misdemeanor and a crime 



