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fortunate and bound to retard the movement for safe and clean 

 milk-supplies. 



As a general rule, legislation should be conservative and 

 should not impose undue hardships upon producers by attempting 

 too much at a single step. A milk famine may result, and opposi- 

 tion is bound to follow radical legislation. The most progressive 

 dairies are usually in advance of regulations which have for their 

 purpose the controlling of supphes furnished by dealers whose 

 object is evasion of the law rather than the production of a sani- 

 tarv milk. 



Fig. 229. 



It is unfortunate that the various states and municipalities 

 have enacted legislations which clash. It is true that conditions 

 are unlike in different places, and that legislation must take 

 cognizance of this fact. It is for this reason that Federal control 

 of milk-supplies is not favored by some who have studied the 

 problem. Harding, for example, states that "because of the 

 extent and diversity of our country and because of the limitation 

 of our knowledge of the factors involved Federal regulations uni- 

 formly applicable are difficult if not impossible." 



Brown has made an extensive study of municipal milk regula- 

 tions, and found that a surprising diversity of demands existed. 

 Among the ordinances studied, he found the following curious 

 facts: 



