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the greatest scientific invention of the age. It is a gelatine pre- 

 paration and the same firm makes ''Cream Albumen" in powder- 

 ed form, composed of sucrate of lime and gelatine. ''Cream 

 Albumenoid" made by Preservaline Mfg. Co., New York, is also 

 sucrate of lime and gelatine. The same company makes 'M' Pre- 

 servaline in powdered form for milk and cream and it is borax, 

 a harmful substance when used as food. 



The various mixtures of formaldehyde which I have shown 

 you, sell for a dollar per quart bottle, and it may be some com- 

 fort to the adulterator to tell him that each bottle contains from 

 seven to ten cents worth of the drug and water enough to make 

 the dollar's worth. These things and the fact, as shown' by our 

 investigation that a large per cent of the hotels, restaurants and 

 lunch rooms sell little standard, but largely adulterated or skim- 

 med milk as standard milk, plus the lack of sanitary conditions 

 in the producing and handling of milk, are what stand between 

 you, Mr. Dairyman, and as large and legitimate a market as you 

 should have for your milk, for I am certainly not imaginary when 

 I say that such a state of affairs as this cannot but have the 

 effect of prejudicing a large per cent of the consuming public 

 against milk, the most useful and wholesome of all foods. It will 

 take some years of rigid enforcement of. good laws to restore the 

 confidence of the public in the wholesomeness of our milk and 

 bring the consumption per capita up to where it should be, and in 

 the absence of proper laws now existing I trust you will make it 

 your business to assist in passing adequate laws at this session 

 of the legislature. In this law should be proper provision for 

 compulsory cleanliness in the production and sale ot all dairy and 

 food products, and a provision making it a misdemeanor to man- 

 ufacture for sale, offer or expose for sale or sell, or advertise 

 any substance intended as an adulterant for dairy products. 

 Dairy products should be and the public should demand that 

 they must be, pure. The law should also provide sufficient ap- 

 propriation so we may keep our inspectors working all of the 

 time instead of having to withdraw from this most important 

 w^ork in the midst of it for lack of funds as was the case last 

 summer. 



