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but the man who can win the confidence of the 

 farmer; the man who can successfully appeal to his 

 good sense and show him the practical advantages 

 which arise from the observance of certain elementary 

 rules of hygiene. It must have been some such in- 

 spector a dairyman told me about in the neighborhood 

 of Media, Penn. "I would rather see the inspector 

 come to my place than almost anybody I know. He 

 has taught me things worth himdreds of dollars to 

 me," he said. 



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How far the cities may depend wholly upon the 

 state inspectors to properly safeguard the production 

 of the milk they consume is a question which every 

 city will have to decide for itself. Certainly not until 

 the inspection by the ofiicials of the state is so perfect 

 that city inspectors would be a waste of time and 

 money, wiU it be advisable for the cities to give 

 up the present general practice of having a staff of 

 inspectors divided into two divisions, one for the 

 inspection of dairies in the city limits, receiving sta- 

 tions, and all places where milk is sold, the other for 

 country inspection, of farms, creameries, and so on. 

 I am inclined to think that it will always be well — 

 at least in the case of the larger cities — to have some 

 city inspectors at work in the districts where the milk 

 is produced, as a sort of check upon the inspectors 

 working xmder direction of the state. I do not sug- 



