12 THE MILK SITUATION IN THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA. 



mittee on the District of Columbia, urging the necessity for the enact- 

 ment of legislation to regulate the production and sale of milk and 

 cream in the District of Columbia. 



The committee has been favored with invitations from Mr. Nathan 

 Straus to inspect the Straus Laboratories in New York City; also 

 from Mr. S. M. Shoemaker, proprietor of the local Walker-Gordon 

 Laboratory, to inspect his model dairy farm near Baltimore, Md. ; 

 and from Mr. Loton Horton, of the Sheffield Farms Slawson-Decker 

 Co.; and Mr. Herbert P. Carter, proprietor of the Manor Farm 

 Dairy, at Arlington, Va., to visit their respective establishments. 

 While it has not been feasible to avail of these invitations, the com- 

 mittee has profited by the valuable information and advice tendered 

 by the gentlemen named. 



The committee has been favored with several communications (Ap- 

 pendix H) from Mr. Carter, setting forth with intelligent detail the 

 feasibility of establishing, by private subscription, a large dairy farm 

 to be located, preferably, adjacent to the banks of the Potomac River 

 near Mount Vernon, Va., with a view to supplying milk (raw, pas- 

 teurized, and modified) in large quantities for the Washington mar- 

 ket. While the project may be a praiseworthy one and calculated to 

 yield a satisfactory profit to its supporters, the committee feels that 

 the consideration of this proposal is without the proper scope of its 

 investigations. 



An inspection of the White Cross milk plant, at Frederick, Md., 

 was made by the committee, through the courtesy of the company. 

 The committee was most favorably impressed with the cleanliness and 

 orderly manner of the operations of this plant and with the enterprise 

 of the company in installing the latest ingenious labor-saving and 

 sanitary devices for the pasteurization, concentration, bottling, and 

 transportation of milk. 



The committee has also inspected the local pasteurizing plants of 

 Mr. George M. Oyster, jr., and of the Straus Laboratory, and is 

 firmly convinced of the excellent results achieved by these establish- 

 ments. 



At a public hearing before the Commissioners of the District of 

 Columbia, held at the Municipal Building on October 20, 1910, 

 there appeared, in addition to the representatives of the local milk 

 dealers, Dr. A. D. Melvin, Chief of the Bureau of Animal Industry of 

 the Department of Agriculture; Dr. John R. Mohler, chief of the 

 Pathological Division of the Bureau of Animal Industry; Dr. E. C. 

 Schroeder, superintendent of the Bethesda, Md., experiment station 

 of the Bureau of Animal Industry, and Dr. John F. Anderson, chief 

 of the Hygienic Laboratory of the Public Health and Marine- 

 Hospital Service; also Mr. Herbert P. Carter, an independent milk 

 producer and proprietor of the Manor Farm Dairy near Arlington, 

 Va. Copies of the statements of these gentlemen at the hearing are 

 appended (Appendix I). The testimony of the experts mentioned, 

 which embraces the views of these recognized authorities down to 

 the very date of the hearing, will be discussed in this report under 

 the separate headings to which their remarks relate. 



It may be stated that the Milk Producers' Association of Mary- 

 land, Virginia, and the District of Columbia was organized in 1903. 

 It is an incorporated body, with a present membership of approxi- 



