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for sale milk shipped into the city of Cleveland without a permit, 

 said milk dealer, shipper or pedler's license shall be forfeited. 



Austin Herrick, H. E. Post, 



W. A. Mills, G. W. Adams, 



H. F. Bicker, W. H. Chambers, 



S. H. Mizer, A. F. Dreaher, 

 C. H. Bennett, C. E. Riley, 



E. Bo wen. , 



When the dairymen themselves, on their own initiative, 

 got together and informed the Board of Health that they wanted 

 to do things right, that they wanted to have their dairies im- 

 proved and the quality of the milk improved, it was a long step 

 in the right direction. I know that many dairymen do not un- 

 derstand why it is that methods which have been pronounced 

 O. K. for the last twenty-five years are suddenly turned down, 

 and it is right that they should have an explanation but the more 

 we learn about bacteria and causes of disease and the importance 

 of pure milk, the more we study this question, the more we see 

 the importance of it and the dairymen are beginning to see the 

 importance of it too. I was particularly interested in one dairy 

 in Cleveland, I think one of the poorest I ever saw, scored 24 

 points on a basis of a score card of 100 ; that same dairy today, 

 I am told, will run up to 75 or 80 points. They have put in 

 windows, a cement floor and a system of ventilation, have every- 

 thing sweet and clean and in nice shape because they realize it 

 is a matter of dollars and cents as well to give them more pride 

 in their work and they are getting a higher price for their milk 

 by improving their dairy in that way. I believe that the dairy- 

 men as a whole are working along the right line in this matter 

 but up to the present time there has not been very much incen- 

 tive for improvement. Dirty milk has sold for the same price 

 as clean milk and is today in many cases selling for the same 

 price and unless the dairyman gets more for his milk there is 

 little incentive for improvement. The consumer will play an 

 important part in this campaign for better milk. The consumer 

 should demand that milk be clean and should be willing to pay 

 the extra price which the production of clean milk involves. Of 

 course a great many consumers look upon milk as an article of 

 food to be purchased at the lowest price possible and do not 



