96 ILLINOIS STATE DAIRYMEN'S ASSOCIATION 



in the morning for their coffee and then sell the milk, they are 

 breaking the state law. It is not only that milk shall have three 

 per cent butterfat, but solids as it comes from the cow. If you 

 skim off one per cent, you are breaking the law and liable to 

 arrest and fine, as if you sold it below three per cent. It must 

 be sold without anything taken from it, or added to it. Therefore 

 when it comes to city work, it is necessary to have inspection for 

 two reasons. 



The first reason, perhaps, is that the men who are inclined 

 to be dishonest should be cautioned and made to keep the law. 

 Second, and a very important reason, the men who are selling 

 the good milk and doing their best to keep the law, should have 

 that indorsement of their work that comes from inspection. For 

 instance if a dozen milkmen, and half are doing the very best they 

 can to furnish good milk and cream, milk up to the standard in 

 every way, and being undersold by some other men who are 

 watering the milk, then the city should know about that, and 

 the consumer should know about it, and the most effectual meth- 

 od of doing away with dishonest practice is for the city to test 

 the milk of each man and publish the result, exactly what the test 

 was from each dairy, and you would find those men very quickly 

 come to time. 



One case where a man was running three retail wagons, 

 and the health ofificer took samples of the milk, and found for- 

 maldehyde. He sent an inspector to the factory one or two days 

 and finally located a gallon bottle of formaldehyde. He published 

 the result in the paper and in less than one week that man hadn't 

 a customer left; absolutely had to quit the business. He had 

 three retail wagons and all he could do was to sell wholesale to 

 another dealer. That was the verdict of the people on that 

 kind of work. That was severe, but he was an old offender and 

 knew better. Publicity will work wonders in any district. 



Illustrates Milk Testing. 



The question comes to every farmer, whether he shall do 

 this work or send it to the Experiment Station. We cannot test 

 all the milk. It is not an expensive operation. This outfit. 



