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Dirt brings disease and loss. All-round cleanliness helps to make 

 a healthy herd and increase the milk yield. 



The problem of obtaining a better price for a better article is 

 a difficult one, but the prospects for the future are brightening. 



The initiation of Clean Milk Competitions amongst farmers 

 is a movement of great promise. The awards in these competi- 

 tions are made on the basis of a bacteriological and chemical 

 examination of the milk and an inspection of the equipment and 

 methods in use at the farm. Diplomas are awarded to those 

 competitors attaining a sufficiently high standard and money 

 piizes provided for the milkers — a welcome recognition of the 

 fact that success in this work, as in so many others, is dependent 

 on the co-operation of all grades of workers. Successful com- 

 petitors in these competitions have every right to expect, and in 

 some instances have already obtained, a higher price for their 

 milk; further, the result of the efforts made by the others 

 cannot but be beneficial, particularly as a concise report on his 

 own conditions of production is sent to each competitor. 



Competitions of this nature, if introduced into other counties 

 by Farmers' Societies, by large wholesale dairy companies or by 

 city councils may well become general and popular, and they 

 will certainly be exceedingly helpful in improving the milk 

 supi)ly at its source in the manner which is least controversial 

 and most successful, namely, by the action of the farmers them- 

 selves. 



With regard to the production of milk under the strictest con- 

 ditions of cleanliness, the Ministry of Health has taken over and 

 is carrying on the scheme initiated by the Ministry' of Food 

 whereby licences were issued to producers and distributors com- 

 ]«lying with certain conditions pei-mitting them, and them only, 

 to describe milk produced under such licence, as Grade A and 

 Grade A ("Certified) milk.* The demand for and the supply of 

 milk of this high quality at a corresponding price is gradually 

 increasing throughout the country, and though rapid progress 

 cannot be expected, it is a gi'eat advance to have a high, but 

 iicvortlieless attainable standard set up and recognised by the 

 pioducer. tlio distributor, the consumer and the Government. 



* See H.M.L. 6 and H.M.L. 7 = Licences perniittinn: the use of the 

 designations " Grade A (Certified) Milk" and Grade A Milk "— (>l)tainal)Ie 

 from the Ministry of Health, Whitehall, London, S.W.L 



