are kept together so as to facilitate ready reference. These records 
are open to the public, and persons desirous of knowing the standing 
of any dairy or dairy farm are given every facility to examine them 
and are urged to do so. 
INSPECTION OF DAIRY FARMS. 
The total number of farms now licensed to produce milk in this 
jurisdiction or to send milk into it from the adjacent States, Mary- 
land and Virginia, is 861. Milk is being shipped into the District 
from 18 farms in Pennsylvania. 18 in Yew York, and 12 in Yew 
Jersey, without licenses, by virtue of the provision in the law which 
authorizes the shipment of milk immediately after the filing of 
an application and until that application has been acted upon 
by the health officer. The funds available for the inspection of dairy 
farms have not been sufficient to permit the systematic inspection 
of farms in Yew York and Pennsylvania, and therefore action by 
the health officer has been indefinitely suspended. The applica- 
tions that have been filed present, of course, prima facie cases of full 
compliance with the laws and regulations of the District, and licenses 
might be lawfully issued. Experience has demonstrated, however, 
that the evidence presented in an application is not always to be 
relied upon, and therefore, pending the making of provisions for the 
regular inspection of these places, the course just set forth has been 
adopted. 
The territory under actual inspection is divided into six districts 
and one inspector assigned to each. Prior to September 20. 1907, 
there were but five districts, only five inspectors being then available 
for the inspection of dairy farms. The result was that in one dis- 
trict a considerable number of farms could not be inspected during 
the entire year. 
In order that an inspector of dairy farms may discharge his duties, 
it is necessary that he be provided with means of transportation. 
For this purpose each inspector of dairy farms is allowed by the 
District government $865 per annum to enable him to maintain a 
horse and vehicle for his official use. When an inspector is required 
to visit dairy farms beyond a driving distance from his place of 
residence, he is allowed actual traveling expenses, payment being 
made monthly on itemized vouchers, duly sworn to by the inspector 
and approved by the health officer. 
Yotwithstanding the use of a horse and vehicle and the making of 
allowances for traveling expenses, the amount of work done by an 
inspector of dairy farms is seriously curtailed by the distance which 
he has to travel between the places which he inspects. This is true 
particularly in the more remote portions of the country from which 
the milk supply is derived, since dairy farms in such regions are few 
