476 THE CONTROL OF THE MILK SUPPLY 



laws for the special inspection of dairies and the milk supply, nine 

 States legislate in particular for the regular inspection of milch 

 cows, and several of the more advanced States (for example, 

 Pennsylvania and Wisconsin) have legislated against the addition 

 of preservatives and antiseptics to milk or cream. The following 

 selections representative of those three main lines of legislation 

 may suffice to illustrate the State laws : — 



" Milk inspection. — The dairy and food commissioner, or his 

 agents, shall have full access and ingress to all premises, buildings, 

 or dairies, where milk is stored, produced, or handled for the 

 city milk trade, and is hereby empowered to enforce such measures 

 as may be necessary to prevent the sale of milk from diseased 

 cows, or from cows fed upon unwholesome food, and to require 

 cleanliness in all barns, stables, milk-houses, or buildings where 

 milk is produced or stored, for the city milk trade." — (Wisconsin, 

 Laws of, 1897, Sec. i, chap. 94.) 



" Stabling and care of cows. — When cows are kept by any 

 person for dairy purposes, either for butter or cheese, or for the 

 production of milk or cream for sale, and are confined in stables, 

 such cows so confined shall each be allowed at least 800 cubic feet 

 of air, and such cows so stabled shall not be confined facing each 

 other when closer together than 6 feet, unless there shall be an air- 

 tight partition between such cows at least 4 feet in height ; and all 

 stables where such cows are kept, shall be well ventilated and kept 

 in a good healthful condition ; and if any suspected diseased cow 

 or other animal belonging to, or kept in or about any dairy, the 

 State dairy and food commissioners shall notify the State veteri- 

 narian ; and if any dairy where cows are kept for the purposes above 

 stated is found to be in a filthy and unhealthful condition, the 

 commissioners may notify the proprietor, that said dairy must be 

 put in a healthful condition within three days ; and should said 

 proprietor neglect or refuse to comply with such order, then the 

 commissioner may employ other persons to perform such duty, and 

 said proprietor shall pay all expenses of such labour." — (Oregon : 

 General Laws, 1893, P- 99) Sec. 4.) 



" Presei"vatives and colouring matters. — That the sale or offering 

 for sale of milk or cream for human consumption in this common- 

 wealth to which has been added boracic acid salt, boracic acid, 

 salicylic acid, salicylate of soda, or any other injurious compound, 

 or substance for artificially colouring the same, shall be a mis- 

 demeanour, and punishable by a fine of not less than fifty nor more 

 than one hundred dollars, or imprisonment not exceeding sixty 

 days, or both, or either, at the discretion of the court." — (Pennsyl- 

 vania : Adulteration Act, 1897, Sec. i.) 



But American legislation having for its object the control of 



