. Bulletin of the Department of Agriculture. Agriculture; Agriculture. Washington, D. C. W October 18, 1917 A GUIDE FOR FORMULATING A MILK ORDINANCE. PREPARED IN THE DAIRY DIVISION OF THE BUREAU OF ANIMAL INDUSTRY AND IN THE BUREAU OF CHEMISTRY. For the proper safeguarding of the milk supply of a community a suitable and enforceable law must first be enacted. In general this law must cover three distinct phases: First, fraud; second, disease; and third, cleanliness in the production and handling of milk. One of the most important considerations must be the reasonableness of the law. A law
. Bulletin of the Department of Agriculture. Agriculture; Agriculture. Washington, D. C. W October 18, 1917 A GUIDE FOR FORMULATING A MILK ORDINANCE. PREPARED IN THE DAIRY DIVISION OF THE BUREAU OF ANIMAL INDUSTRY AND IN THE BUREAU OF CHEMISTRY. For the proper safeguarding of the milk supply of a community a suitable and enforceable law must first be enacted. In general this law must cover three distinct phases: First, fraud; second, disease; and third, cleanliness in the production and handling of milk. One of the most important considerations must be the reasonableness of the law. A law which works a special hardship on a legitimate in- dustry is not reasonable, and a law so stringent that it can not readily be enforced will defeat its own ends. A study 1 of the milk ordinances of a great many cities, large and small, shows that there is a great diversity of opinion among the law- makers and their advisers as to what constitutes a proper milk ordi- nance. There is certainly a great lack of uniformity among the laws, some of which are entirely out of date. Many of them seem to be transcripts of ordinances in force in other cities, placed in the municipal series of laws without regard to local conditions. Some of them contain provisions which are unnecessary and unreasonable and which can not be enforced. There has been a constant demand on the Dairy Division of the Bureau of Animal Industry by municipal authorities for some form of milk ordinance which will best meet the requirements necessary to obtain a good, clean, safe milk supply, and which can be used as a guide for local communities. In a strict sense it is impossible to frame a milk ordinance, with its definitions, standards, and requirements, which will be suitable for all communities. On the other hand, a general skeleton form may be made that can be used as a framework upon which to build a finished, practicable, operative law. No local lawmaking body should attempt to draft a milk ordinance, with i
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