80 ILLINOIS STATE DAIRYMEN'S ASSOCIATION 



be more inspectors. If 70 inspectors could be placed in the field 

 to score and study the milk supply of New York City, to visit the 

 dairies and make them clean up, or close up, then this could be 

 covered. That would allow 500 dairies for each inspector. 

 He would have to work twenty days in the month. He would 

 be able to cover 10 dairies a day, and he would visit every dairy 

 under his charge once in two months. That is good inspection. 

 It is not such a big thing after all if we only get after it. In 

 Washington, have covered 350 out of 930 dairies. 



Q : — Do you think a man can inspect 10 dairies a day ? 



A : — These dairies are in the city. It is possible to score 

 25 dairies in a day, but for an average he would not be able to 

 score more than eight or ten. It depends a good deal on the 

 condition. Most of the consumers of milk only think of securing 

 milk as a necessity, and something that they must have, and some- 

 thing that is to be purchased as cheaply as possible. They never 

 stop to think that during the last ten years the price of feed has 

 gone up, labor for the dairy can hardly be found at all, and any 

 labor that is satisfactory you have to pay high prices for. They 

 don't stop to think that the price of milk is just about the same as 

 ten years ago. In the case of other foods, if the price of butter 

 goes up a little, or meat or eggs, that is all right. They pay it 

 and say nothing, but you raise the price of milk a little and you 

 hear the cry ^'Robber" right away. It is high time that the con- 

 sumers were educated about milk and about different grades of 

 milk he is buying. There is more need of education along that 

 line than any other. Take the milk sold in our cities. The con- 

 sumers put out all kinds of dishes for that milk, and it stands 

 in the street for hours, and that milk is finally delivered and 

 taken into the houses and perhaps it is set away with strong 

 smelling foods, or in a place that is not cool, and then in a few 

 hours it is sour, and it is all the fault of the dairy. I think the 

 consumer has a lot of responsibility here and should take better 

 care of it. Wash the bottles thoroughly and return them to the 

 dealer who gave them to you free of charge, and take a little more 

 interest in it yourselves. 



