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gations of milk. Furthermore, an investigation of a dairy 

 with the score card is something that the producer can under- 

 stand and profit by. Again, a dairy with a low score is one 

 that has elements of bacteriological danger, but the bad pos- 

 sibilities may not materialize, so frequently the score card in- 

 spection is not only a help to a dairyman, but a prevention 

 of bacteriological contamination. 



The arguments for state law and state enforcement are: 

 1. State law would give uniformity: Its provisions would 

 apply equally to all people in the state. If it is wise for gov- 

 ernors, state commissions, and national conventions to consider 

 uniformity of legislation as between state and state, uniformity 

 of legislation within the state certainly has merit. 



. State law would be more permanent than city law : It is 

 usually easier to change a city than a state law. A compara- 

 tively small and trivial wave of personal unpopularity or bad 

 feeling, or the exaggerated "drive" of a yellow journal, may 

 upset a good city law, but be powerless against a state law. 



3. Selfish interests would be apt to have less relative in- 

 fluence in the state than in the city. The dairy conditions 

 in Cincinnati, Ohio, were at one time deplorable, due to the 

 feeding of distillery slop, or swill. The physicians recogniz- 

 ing the undesirability of such feed, fought hard to get an 

 ordinance prohibiting its use, but the distillery influence in 

 local politics was stronger than the medical or health influence. 

 Then an effort was made to get a state law prohibiting the 

 feeding of distillery swills to dairy cows. This succeeded 

 because the distillers could not control as much relative power 

 at the state house as at the city hall. 



4. Where the milk supply of a large city comes from many 

 towns or where several cities receive milk from the same lo- 

 cality, the state law has certain manifest advantages. 



5. State law, as a rule, would command better talent in 

 its construction than local law. 



6. A state inspector would give his undivided attention 

 to enforcing dairy laws, while in many of the smaller cities 

 the inspector has several kinds of work to do. 



7. A state-wide law would be tested in more courts, have 

 to stand more hammering by more lawyers, and the weak 

 points would be sooner detected and remedied. 



