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H. F. PALMER. 
much of our milk is uninspected. Educate the consumer and 
he will be willing to pay the few added cents to each quart of 
milk in return for receiving pure, wholesome and inspected 
milk. 
And now a few words as to the way inspection of both milk 
and meat could be bettered. Certainly the United States and 
each State should work in unison, so that there may be a strict 
uniformity of laws. All meat should receive the inspector’s 
stamp before it comes to the consumer, even to that piece.dealt 
out by the one-horse wagon that calls at your door. Perhaps 
this cannot be accomplished with the great number of slaugh¬ 
tering establishments as at present, but I should concentrate 
these establishments and have municipal abattoirs. There the 
small butcher who uses but one or two carcasses a week may 
have all the advantages of killing floor, cooling room and in¬ 
spector’s stamp, as the dealer who uses his eight or ten a day. 
Inasmuch as inspection adds to the selling value of meat, the 
owner of those carcasses should pay the added cost of inspection. 
All milk dealt out should also be inspected. This does not 
mean the milk alone, but the inspection of that milk should be¬ 
gin with the animal that produces it. She should be free from 
disease, in a thrifty condition, kept in clean, well-ventilated 
quarters and fed on pure, wholesome food. Ensilage, decaying 
vegetable matter and various other things are known to give a 
taint to milk. All things used about the milk and milk room 
should be scrupulously clean. Attendants should be free from 
communicable diseases. If the milk when first drawn is Pas- 
teurized or heated to 167 degrees F. and kept there forty min¬ 
utes by live steam and then at once bottled ready for the con¬ 
sumer, many of the deadly germs will be destroyed and no harm 
done to constituents of milk. Abandon the old form of milk 
ticket, so that one day it will not be handled by a scarlet fever 
patient, and the next by a person just in the right condition to 
help the growth of the few germs adhering to that same ticket. 
Inasmuch as the health of our domestic animals plays so 
important a part in the health of our people, I would say, place 
