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THE CHAIRMAN: The time is very short, and the Chairman 

 has not seen these except at this minute, and I can hardly explain 

 them to the committee. Is there any other discussion? 



MR. ROOT: I am in the same predicament as my friend. I 

 am a purchaser of milk and a dealer, and I have been for the past 

 thirty-five years, and I can't understand that resolution. We are 

 dealing with nature now, and there are such variations in nature 

 and in the changes in milk the milk that the same cow will give 

 from time to time, that to arrive at that standard seems to me to be 

 an impossible proposition. 



DR. WILE: That resolution seems perfectly clear, inasmuch as 

 the Department of Agriculture has already established grades of 

 milk, the Department of Health of the City of New York has al- 

 ready established grades of milk, and various states and municipal- 

 ities have established grades of milk. There does not seem to be 

 any difficulty in understanding what "grades of milk" means. 

 (Applause.) 



DR. ROSENAU: I would like to know whether this would meet 

 with the approval of the Department of Agriculture of the State of 

 New York? 



DR. WILE: I may say that the resolution does meet with the 

 approval of the Department of Agriculture of the State of New 

 York. 



THE CHAIRMAN: It seems to me that it is a matter of detail as 

 to the denning of these grades. As Dr. Wile says, it has been 

 done, and I am sure it can be done. 



(The motion was carried and the resolution was adopted.) 



DR. WILE: The second resolution, Mr. Chairman, may even 

 cast a little better light upon what the previous resolution means, 

 although it has come from an entirely different source. It is as 

 follows : 



"Resolved, That pending the adoption of national standards, 

 the Conference on Milk Problems of the New York Milk Com- 

 mittee endorse the classification of milk recommended by A. 

 D. Melvin, Chief of Bureau of Animal Industries of the United 

 States Department of Agriculture, approved by the Milk Con- 

 ference of the District of Columbia of 1907, and published in 

 Circular 114 of the Bureau of Animal Industries and in Bul- 

 letins 41 and 56 of the U. S. Public Health and Marine Hos- 

 pital Service. 



This classification designates three kinds of milk; Certified, 

 Inspected and Pasteurized. 



