United States and State standards for dairy products, 1905 — Continued. 
States. 
Milk. 
Skim 
milk. 
Cream. 
Butter. 
Cheese. 
Total 
solids. 
Solids, 
not fat. 
Fat. 
Total 
solids. 
Fat. 
Fat. 
Fat. 
Per cent. 
12 
Per cl. 
Per ct. 
8 
Per ct. 
Per ct. 
Per cent. 
80 
Full cream, 30 p. c. fat; 
one-half skim, 15 p. c. 
fat; skim, 10 p. c. 
Rhode Island 
12 
2.5 
Maxi- 
mum 
water, 16 
p.c.; salt, 
6 p. c. 
South Carolina 
8.5 
3 
South Dakota 
13 
3 
18 
82.5 
Full cream, 50 p. c. of the 
total solids to be fat; 
skim, fat less than 50 
p. c. 
Skim, 7 to 11 inches in 
Utah 
12.5 ' 
3 
9 p. c. 
20 
83 
Vermont 
12.5 
12 
9.25 
solids, 
not fat. 
diameter; minimum 
height, 9 inches. 
May and June 
Washington , 
8 
3 
18 
Full cream, 30 p. c. fat; 
skim, 15 p. c. fat. 
Fancy excepted. 
Skim, 10 inches in diam- 
eter, 9 inches height. 
Skim, lessthan20p.c.f at. 
Wisconsin 
3 
Wyoming a 
12 
2.4 
80 
May and June 
11.5 
° Condensed milk must contain 28 per cent milk solids and 7 per cent fat. 
At the Eleventh Annual Convention of the Association of State 
and National Food and Dairy Departments, held at Jamestown, July 
15-19, 1907, Mr. P. M. Harwood (1), general agent Massachusetts 
dairy bureau, read a paper entitled “ Has the milk standard outlived 
its usefulness? ” He called attention to the fact that on account of 
the rigid requirements regarding the composition of milk offered for 
sale in the State of Massachusetts a good many milk producers are 
being gradually driven from the business for the reason that while 
milk prices are gradually becoming higher in the cities, the farmer or 
milk producer does not receive a proportionate amount of the profit 
accruing from the increased price nor an amount sufficient to com- 
pensate him for the trouble and expense growing out of the enforce- 
ment of laws regulating the milk standard. He points out that at a 
recent discussion of the question of the milk standard before the com- 
mittee on agriculture of the Massachusetts legislature many interest- 
ing facts were brought out. It developed at these hearings that the 
standards now in force — viz, 13 per cent total solids, 3.7 per cent fat, 
and 9.3 per cent solids not fat, in winter, and 12 per cent total solids, 
