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plied to our cities is of this character. It was specified that the milk in this class' 

 must not be pasteurized or contain any preservatives. 



Class II. Market cream (raw) : It was specified that this product should be 

 sweet, unpasteurized, and free from preservatives. 



Class III. Dairy farms: All dairymen having exhibits of milk or cream in 

 the above classes were permitted to enter the dairy farm contest. These farms' 

 were visited by the judges and scored on the basis of a score card. The results of 

 this contest were published as Circular 117 of the Bureau of Animal Industry. 



At the Pittsburg exhibition there were 50 entries of milk, 11 entries of 'cream 

 and. 20 entries in the dairy farm competition. There were approximately 400 

 dairymen present at the meeting, which included addresses by several prominent 

 experts on the question. The plan has been found very successful in developing a 

 co-operative spirit between the city and the dairy farmer and has been followed 

 by very beneficial results. 



ISLAND OF PORTO RICO. 



In the island of Porto Rico a Sanitary Regulation was passed in 1905 pro- 

 viding "that no person could engage in selling milk without securing a license 

 from the Health Officer of the municipality in which the applicant resided. It 

 was provided also that licenses issued might be revoked if the licensee failed to 

 observe the rules, restrictions and conditions' under which the license was issued. 

 Each licensee was held responsible for his employees. There is a provision against 

 adulteration. Persons in any way connected with the sale of milk must not, under 

 any consideration, enter any place where there exists contagious diseas'e, but must 

 report such disease at once to the Health Officer. It is added that " no person shall 

 sell or deliver milk at a house that has been placarded for contagious disease, unless 

 such milk is delivered at the door in a suitable vessel which shall not leave the 

 house thus quarantined. Health officers and sanitary inspectors are empowered to 

 inspect and seize milk that is thought to be contaminated or unfit for food, and if 

 such is found to be the fact upon analysis, shall prosecute. One clause peculiar to 

 the local conditions of the island reads': "The Health Officer shall issue licenses 

 for the sale of milk from cows milked on the street at the residence of customers." 

 This industry shall be carried on during certain hours of the morning and after- 

 noon, but never during the noon hours. All persons engaged in this industry 

 shall take the necessary precautions' to prevent contamination of the milk and 

 shall adopt the necessary measures so that the udders shall be well washed before 

 milking and that the milker shall have his hands clean and the vessel used for 

 milking shall also be perfectly clean. 



