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at the receiving- station, the inspector would go and take samples 

 brought in by the farmers and then run bacterial counts on that 

 milk and separating the farmers bringing in good milk and those 

 bringing in milk with high bacterial count. In every case we 

 went back as far as we could to reach the source to find out w^ho 

 it was that was contaminating or adulterating the milk ; we tried 

 to find the person really responsible. AVhen we found out which 

 farmer it was that was bringing in poor milk, our inspectors 

 would go to his farm and in an amicable manner, with no desire 

 to prosecute, watch him milk and try to point out the places 

 where he was at fault. That is one of the points where an effi- 

 cient man is absolutely necessary in this work. If a man going 

 to these farms did not know how to produce good milk, he would 

 give the farmer advice that might be costly and the result would 

 be that the farmer would turn against the Department instead of 

 looking up to us, and the Department is anxious to educate them. 

 These inspectors demonstrated to those farmers that in an inex- 

 pensive manner and without much effort they could produce 

 good milk. 



The result of that work was, that after we had finished in 

 the towns which we had gone to, one of them established a 

 chemical laboratory capable of taking care of the bacterial and 

 chemical analysis of milk. One of the towns passed a Milk 

 Ordinance which is a very good one. Up to the present time 

 they have not had the men to enforce it, but hope to do that in 

 the near future. One of the towns that we did not go to estab- 

 lished a laboratory of their own and installed two inspectors 

 who do nothing but look after the milk and water and other 

 foodstuffs delivered in that town. 



Further, we were able to create a public sentiment and the 

 people became interested. In many cases they knew nothing 

 about how dangerous the milk was when brought to the people 

 in a contaminated condition. In those towns we attempted to 

 go before the Civic Improvement Association, the Women's 

 Clubs and had special meetings and our Assistant Pure Food 

 Commissioner addressed those meetings and placed before the 

 people the data which we had accumulated, and asked for their 

 co-operation in the work. The net result of it was that we 

 showed the people that the towns must in some way or other 



