THE MILK SITUATION IN THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA. H 



concerned with the transportation of milk. Copies of these letters 

 and the replies are subjoined (Appendix D). 



Inquiries concerning the cost, etc., of pasteurizing machinery were 

 addressed to the following concerns: Dairy Machinery & Construc- 

 tion Co., Shelton, Conn.; Creamery Package Manufacturing Co.. 

 Chicago, 111. ; A. H. Keid Co., Philadelphia, Pa. ; x Miller Pasteurizer 

 Co., Canton, Ohio. 1 



The committee appends a copy of its letter (Appendix E), ad- 

 dressed on November 28, 1910, to President Thomas, of the Milk Pro- 

 ducers' Association of Maryland, Virginia, and the District of Co- 

 lumbia, inviting an expression of the sense of the association as to 

 whether the dairy farmers supplying milk to the District are receiv- 

 ing their proper share of the proceeds of the sale of milk and milk 

 products, and whether the adoption of a uniform standard through- 

 out the year of prices to be received by the producers was feasible; 

 also as to what effect compulsory pasteurization, the general appli- 

 cation of the tuberculin test, and the insistence on a temperature 

 below 50 F., would have on the prices asked by the dairy farmer for 

 his product. No reply has been received in response to this inquiry. 



A letter was addressed to the Chief of the United States Weather 

 Bureau, asking authoritative information concerning the winter tem- 

 peratures in this locality for some years past. 



The committee has examined with scrupulous care the responses 

 received to the letters of inquiry (Appendix C), and has scrutinized 

 with diligence the publications presented to its attention by various 

 persons interested in the subject under investigation. A list of these 

 publications is annexed (Appendix F), also copies of laws, ordi- 

 nances, rules, regulations, etc., concerning the production and distri- 

 bution of milk in certain American municipalities (Appendix G). 



The committee, in obtaining accurate and reliable data upon which 

 to base its conclusions, has availed itself of the great advantage which 

 Washington possesses in having in its midst the scientific staffs of the 

 Public Health and Marine-Hospital Service, the Bureaus of Animal 

 Industry and Chemistry, of the Department of Agriculture, and of 

 the Offices of the Surgeons General of the Army and Navy. On these 

 several staffs are many specialists and investigators who have attained 

 universal recognition as the result, partially at least, of their studies 

 upon the relation of milk to the public health. The committee has 

 embraced with enthusiasm this exceptional opportunity for fixing its 

 views on the many subjects included in its inquiry. Such men as 

 Melvin, Mohler, Schroeder, Rogers, Wiley, Anderson, Trask, and 

 Kastle have, through their labors, contributed immensely to the 

 world's knowledge of this important field of scientific and economic 



research. . ,, . ., 



The committee is indebted to Dr. George M. Kober, of. this city, 

 for much fundamental information gained from his paper entitled 

 " The study of milk in relation to health and disease," published a| 

 early as 1896 under the auspices of the California State board of 

 health, in which the subject is treated in an especially elucidatory 

 manner. This article is elaborated by Dr. Kober in a communica- 

 tion 2 addressed by him in 1902 to the chairman of the Senate 



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