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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 dair}^ 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 864. Milk is being shipped into the District 
from 18 farms in Penns3dvania, 18 in New York, and 12 in New 
Jerse}", Avithout licenses, b}^ Aurtue of the provision in the law which 
authorizes the shipment of milk immediatel}^ after the filing of 
an application and until that application has been acted upon 
b}^ the health officer. The funds available for the inspection of dairy 
farms haA^e not been sufficient to permit the s\^stematic inspection 
of farms in New Yoiffi: and PennsjdA^ania, and therefore action by 
the health officer has been indefinitely suspended. The applica- 
tions that haA^e been filed present, of course, prima facie cases of full 
compliance with the laws and regulations of the District, and licenses 
might be lawfull}^ issued. Experience has demonstrated, howeA^er, 
that the eAudence presented in an application is not always to be 
relied upon, and therefore, pending the making of proAusions for the 
regular inspection of these places, the course just set forth has been 
adopted. 
The territoiy under actual inspection is divided into six districts 
and one inspector assigned to each. Prior to September 20, 1907, 
there were but fiA^e districts, only fiA-e inspectors being then aA-ailable 
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 daily farms may discharge his duties, 
it is necessarA^ that he be proAuded Avith means of transportation. 
For this purpose each inspector of dairy farms is allowed b}^ the 
District goA^ernment $365 per annum to enable him to maintain a 
horse and A^ehicle for his official use. Vlien an inspector is required 
to visit dairy farms beAmnd a driving distance from his place of 
residence, he is alloAved actual traA^eling expenses, payment being 
made monthly on itemized Amuchers, duly sworn to by the inspector 
and approA^d b}^ the health officer. 
Notwithstanding the use of a horse and A^ehicle and the making of 
allowances for traA^eling expenses, the amount of Avork done by an 
inspector of dairA^ farms is serioush^ curtailed by the distance which 
he has to traA^el between the places which he inspects. This is true 
particular!}^ in the more remote portions of the country from which 
the milk supply is deriA^ed, since dairy farms in such regions are few 
