Legal Standards for Milk. 91 
These standards, while efficient in securing honest 
dealing where they are rigidly enforced, nevertheless 
may work injustice, so far as the honesty of the 
dealer is concerned, under various circumstances, 
and may prevent the production and sale of a com- 
paratively low quality product at a reasonable price. 
It would seem, therefore, that the best means of reg- 
ulating the traffic in milk would be, not to set up 
an artificial standard to which all must come, but 
to require each individual dealer to guarantee his own 
standard, and hold him responsible if his milk were 
found below. In this way it would be possible to 
sell milk of various qualities, from strictly skimmed 
to heavy cream, upon a graduated seale of prices, 
with exact justice to every one. 
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