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The samples of abnormally high milk, 19, 18, 16, per cent 

 etc., were prolmbly cases where there was carelessness in 

 properly mixing the milk, and the samples which our agent 

 happened to get were taken from the top of the can or tank. 

 In those cases we notified the parties, recommending more 

 care in mixing, for the person who w^ould be served with 

 milk from the bottom of the can or tank would have that 

 which was correspondingly poor. 



In the cases of milk which tested low we took a second 

 sample to strengthen our position, and in every case but one 

 the second sample was an improvement on the first, confirm- 

 ing still further our theory that there exists too much care- 

 lessness about properly agitating and mixing the milk. In 

 the one exception, to which allusion is made above, the sam- 

 ple taken at the first visit of our agent tested 10.28, and that 

 taken at a second visit tested 8.14. 



The principal critics of the law come largel}^ from towns 

 which have shipped milk for many years to Boston, where 

 there is none of the tonic that comes from producer meeting 

 consumer, and where cows have been bred for large quanti- 

 ties rather than for quality. 



During the past year the newspapers have reported an in- 

 creased attention to the sanitary phases of the milk question. 



