The question has been raised as to why the State requires a dairy to put cement floors in the stables where the cows are housed, to sterilize all bottles and milk vessels, and take numerous precautions to safeguard the health of the patrons of the dairy and at the same time allows any one to keep a cow or two who wants to do so, and sell all the milk the family does not consume, to one, two, or a dozen neighbors as the case may be with never an inspection to see if the cow or cows have cancer, tuberculosis or other troubles; with no concern as to how the milk vessels are handled, or whether the udder of the cow is washed with disinfectant before milking, or whether the milk is strained in a room where some one is ill with diarrhea or typhoid fever or some other disease liable to contaminate the milk. Is the health of the few not as much the concern of the State as the health of the many?
From the editorial page of The Mount Airy News, J.E. Johnson & Son, publishers, June 30, 1921
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