MILK INSPECTION. 
079 
dairyman naturally finds it more profitable to market his pro¬ 
duct himself by retailing it to customers where there is no in¬ 
spection. The purity and quality are not likely to be seriously 
questioned, and he suffers no loss, except, perhaps, by bad bills. 
It is apparent, therefore, that a city without inspection fosters 
poor milk. In justice to consumers that premium should be 
removed. u The farmer is himself protected by law in every 
bag of a shipment of fertilizer he receives that it shall be uni¬ 
form and up to the analysis.” So the purchaser of milk should 
have the right to hold vendors to a reasonable requirement. 
I have said that a city without inspection fosters poor milk. 
The question may arise, how does it do it? One answer is that 
u some milk producers are quite abreast of the times, and by the 
use of a little machine known as the separator extract all the 
cream and sell what remains as the real thing.” That answer 
is based on the assumption that dairymen keep only good cows 
that give rich milk ; in fact, some one has said “ that it is so 
fatty in its natural condition that some of the richness must be 
removed before the city dyspeptics can digest it.” But another 
explanation has been given to account for the poor milk retailed 
to consumers, in cities without inspection ; and that is, that they 
keep a different class of cows than those who furnish milk to 
creameries and cheese-factories, the milk of which is naturally 
so thin that it does not require to be skimmed to make it whole¬ 
some. Aside from the levity of this explanation it seems reason¬ 
able. 
It can hardly be doubted that it is to the interest of the pa¬ 
tron of the creamery and cheese factory to keep only such 
cows as produce rich milk, for the richer his milk is the more 
money he makes. Since the advent of the cheese factory and 
creamery laws the up-to-date patron of them has gone into 
the milk-testing business for the sole purpose of finding out 
which of his cows, if any, are not paying a profit for the food 
they consume ; that is one of the things he must know if he 
would succeed, and he has made himself familiar with the way 
of determining it, and it is safe to infer that he does a duty to 
