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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) : ^ 



Table VI 

 Earliest Dairy Inspection in Various American Cities 



Boston, Mass .... 

 Providence, R. I.. . 

 Syracuse, N. Y. . . 

 Hartford, Conn . . , 



Newark, N. J 



Buffalo, N. Y 



Pittsburg, Pa 



Philadelphia, Pa.. 

 Rochester, N. Y. . 

 Mt. Qair, N. J... 

 New York, N. Y.. 

 Washington, D. C, 



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. 



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



