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the existing legal reciuirements or those that may be 

 made later, and esjaecially to report every change in the 

 make up of his herd. This is a good arrangement. The 

 actual observance of these requirements should be con- 

 trolled by frequent visits of a veterinarian appointed 

 by a central authority or l)y occasional visits of the 

 local veterinarian, but the latter plan is not so satisfac- 

 tory. 



Such a regulation would, of course, be particularly 

 difficult in large cities as, for example, Coiienhagen, 

 which receives milk not only from a very large number 

 of large and small herds, the cows in which are often 

 changed, but is supplied with milk from a large ])art of 

 the country. On the otiier hand, the regulations men- 

 tioned can be adoi)ted without gi'eat difficulty in small 

 cities, although they might cause dissatisfaction at first 

 among the dairy farmers. In most of the larger cities, 

 up to the ])resent time, little has liccu done except to 

 l)ublish notices in regard to the regulations respecting 

 the production of milk, but no rejiorts have been de- 

 manded of producers and no special control lias l)een 

 l)rovide(l to enl'in-ce these regulations. The local boards 

 of health have the right to investigate cases which are 

 re]iorted and if necessary to forbid the sale of milk from 

 the premises involved. 



[In the United States, there is a certain amount of 

 dairy farm inspection under the authority of the states. 

 In ^Massachusetts, herds are inspected by the Cattle Bu- 

 reau of the I3oard of Agricultuic, in Pennsylvania by 

 the State Li\esto(Iv Sanitary Board, on request from 

 local boarils of health that their milk supplies be exam- 

 ined into; in several states, herds and premises are in- 

 spected under authority of the State Dairy and Food 

 Connnissioner, the Connnissioner of Agriculture or the 

 Slate Board of Health. In no state, however, is there a 



