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other papers relating to the establishment, another copy having been 
furnished the dairyman for his information and guidance.® 
INSPECTION OF MILK. 
The inspector charged with the collection of samples of milk is ex- 
pected to bring into the department daily not less than 20 samples of 
milk. He collected during the year ended June 30, 1907, 4,960 sam- 
ples of milk and cream, an average of 16 samples for each work day, 
including half holidays as full days. These samples he obtained in 
the open market from dairies, grocery stores, lunch rooms, or other 
places where milk is sold, or from milk wagons, or at the railroad sta- 
tions where milk from the dairy farm first reaches the city. Milk is 
obtained by purchase whenever anyone is present to receive the 
money, but in collecting samples at the railroad stations no charge 
is ever made. Money for the purchase of samples is advanced by the 
inspector out of his own funds, and he is reimbursed each month for 
the amount thus expended. Vouchers for such reimbursement must 
be sworn to by the collector and approved by the chemist or the 
inspector detailed to assist him, such approval being based upon the 
quantity of milk actually delivered at the laboratory as shown by the 
laboratory recorcj. The voucher may call for reimbursement for less 
milk than has been delivered at the laboratory, since in some cases no 
payment can be made at the time of collection, but it can not call for 
more. 
While one-half pint of milk is sufficient for purposes of analysis, 
yet in view of a decision of the court of appeals (D. C. v. Garrison, 
22 Appeals, D. C. 563) * 6 it is necessary for the collector to purchase 
a pint whenever the vendor claims to sell nothing less than pints, un- 
less the inspector is able to show that he sells in smaller quantities. In 
view of the court’s decision, moreover, the department has felt com- 
pelled to purchase quart samples whenever it has been alleged by the 
vendor that he sold only in unbroken packages and had nothing 
smaller than 1 quart on hand, the department not being prepared to 
prove a contrary practice. It might be good administration to re- 
quire the collector to undertake to mix a pint or a quart sample on the 
premises of the vendor and to take therefrom so much as might be re- 
quired for analysis and to dispose of the remainder then and there. 
In view of the difficulty, however, of thoroughly agitating a pint of 
milk in a pint bottle, or a quart of milk in a quart bottle, and to avoid, 
in event of prosecution, attack on the ground of the alleged inaccuracy 
or unfairness of the sample thus taken, it has been deemed best to re- 
quire the inspector to bring whatever milk he collects to the health 
° For copies of forms used in the dairy-inspection service, see pages 729-730. 
6 For a statement relative to this decision, see page 698. 
