Introduction 



tween good and bad milk and a demand for 

 improvement must come first. 



In the general solution of the milk 

 problem in large cities, some help may come 

 through legislation. Certainly the Health 

 Department of the State and city should be 

 given the right to inspect farms and demand 

 those things which are necessary in order to 

 produce a wholesome milk and to exclude 

 contagious disease. Sufficient improve- 

 ments, however, are not to be brought about 

 by compulsion of the dealers, but by educat- 

 ing them up to the point of voluntarily doing 

 better work. It is to the co-operation of the 

 dealers and farmers that we must look for 

 an absolutely pure milk supply, and behind 

 all this must be a public appreciation of good 

 milk. 



One of the most valuable results of Dr. 

 Belcher's work has been to bring about in 

 the dealers a new feeling of proper responsi- 

 bility to the farmers and to the public. Many 

 of them are convinced of their ability to aid 

 in giving the public pure milk, and they have 



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