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It will be seen that the number of milk dealers selling designated
milk, although still very small, shows a tendency to increase, but the
value of the Order lies to a considerable extent in its educational effects;
the existence of such arrangements shows milk producers that clean milk can be
produced on farms (if they like they can learn how to produce clean milk themselves)
and that medical opinion has been able to convince the representatives of
the public of the importance of keeping milk as free as possible from bacteria, and
above all from tubercle bacilli.
The extra cost of producing Grade A Tuberculin Tested milk is creditably
stated to be 2.86d. per gallon. The extra price obtained by the farmer is only
3d. a gallon. Thus for all his trouble the farmer only receives 0.14d. per gallon
Small though this profit be, once farmers are licensed for the production of
designated milk they do not revert to the old methods of production.
The expense is chiefly involved in the collection of a herd of suitable cattle.
Owing to the elimination of tuberculosis and the supervision by veterinary
surgeons (a requirement for the granting of a licence for the production of
designated milk) the general health of the cows is improved with the result that
the quantity of milk is maintained at a high level and there are very few, if any,
"wasters" and no loss when the milch cows are sold for meat. The consumer