MILK AS A MARKET COMMODITY 



in 1856 against the adulteration of milk by adding 

 water. 1 



In 1859 the same state passed a law prohibiting the feed- 

 ing of brewery waste to cattle and also a law calling for 

 the appointment of inspectors and defining their duties. 

 It was not until 1880 that the same state enacted a law 

 fixing a minimum standard for total milk solids. Parker 

 gives a list of seventy-seven American cities with the date 

 of earliest inspection of dairies in each. A few of them are 

 as follows (including most of the early instances) : 2 



TABLE VI 

 Earliest Dairy Inspection in Various American Cities 



In most instances early attempts at regulation were 

 directed against adulteration, a practice which was 

 widely prevalent. In 1883 about 60 per cent of Boston 



1 Kelley, Ernest, International Institute of Dairy and Milk Inspectors, 1915, 

 p. 80. 



2 Parker, H. N., City Milk Supply, p, 371. 



