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likely to elapse before the manufactured clothing is placed 

 in the hands of the consumer. 



There is, of course, an exception in the case of con- 

 densed, evaporated, and powdered milks. These are often 

 stored for considerable periods and later used for many of 

 the purposes for which fluid milk is ordinarily used. As a 

 matter of fact, the perfection of these processes may in 

 the future make possible and bring about greater irregu- 

 larity both in the production and consumption of milk. 



Section 4. Milk Distribution Affected with a Public Interest 



Milk as a market commodity has been hampered by 

 numerous restrictions for many years both in its produc- 

 tion and in its distribution. Dairymen have been com- 

 pelled to remodel their barns to conform to certain speci- 

 fications; peddlers are compelled to deliver their milk in 

 expensive bottles instead of by the cheaper bulk method; 

 city dealers have had to install high-priced pasteurizing 

 machinery in their plants. These and other restrictions 

 have been placed in the name of the public interest. Re- 

 cently a number of investigational committees have recom- 

 mended that the distribution of milk be declared a public 

 service. Such was the recommendation of the Wicks Com- 

 mittee in New York in 1916^ and of the Governors' Tri- 

 State Milk Commission in Pennsylvania in 191 7 ^ the 

 latter advising that the milk business be considered a 

 "quasi-public business." 



What is necessary in order that a business be affected 

 with a public interest? In Munn vs. III., 94 U. S. 113, 

 Chief Justice Waite says: "When . . . one devotes his 



> Dairy Products, Livestock & Poultry, — ^N. Y. — 1917, p. 578. 



* Governors' Tri-State Milk Commission Report, Harrisbuig, Pa., p. 45. 



