THE COW IN HEALTH AND DISEASE 21 



the suggested regulations he would have to 

 sell his milk as of such poor quality that he 

 would get less than now. I am quite sure that 

 the majority of dairymen would welcome such 

 a method. 



We can hardly see why such work as this 

 could not well be handled by the Federal gov- 

 ernment, the same as they are now performing 

 the systematic inspection of all animals killed 

 for food purposes at the slaughter houses that 

 do an interstate business. If the Federal gov- 

 ernment performed this inspection they would 

 be enabled to work out a better and uniform 

 system, on account of the many experts that 

 they already have and due to the fact that they 

 would have much larger fields in which to 

 work out their plans. They could and would, 

 in most instances, secure more competent men 

 to do the work, as they would no doubt secure 

 them from civil service examination. As they 

 would have the entire country to draw from, 

 pay good wagi. j and exempt the positions from 

 political interference a better class of men 

 would seek the positions. 



Average Inspector. 



The average inspector is very unpopular with 

 most dairymen and there are several reasons 

 for this. In the first place, too many inspec- 

 tors are inspectors in name only and do not 

 have the ability that one should have to per- 

 form such duties. They lose favor with the 



Digitized by Microsoft® 



