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are respectively associated. Detailed information as to the
arrangements thus made is given in the Journal of the Board of
Agriculture for March, 1905. The Board would be glad if your
Local Authority would co-operate with them in the matter, and do
what is possible to facilitate the testing of milk in the manner
proposed.
The Board are satisfied that if the keepers of cows will from
time to time test the quality of their milk for themselves, and if
the Local Authorities will adopt some such arrangement as that
above suggested for hearing what the vendor has to say for himself
before taking the case into open Court, any legitimate ground of
complaint on the part of producers as to the administration of
the law, so far as the adulteration of milk is concerned, will
speedily be removed.
I am, Sir,
Your obedient Servant,
T. H. ELLIOTT,
Secretary.
Circular to Local Authorities in Great Britain for the
purposes of the Sale of Food and Drugs Acts, 1875 to 1899.
Board of Agriculture,
4, Whitehall Place,
London, S.W.
SALE OF FOOD AND DRUGS ACT, 1899*
(62 and 63 Vict, c. 51).
Sir,
I am directed by the Board of Agriculture to bring under the
notice of your Local Authority the following observations with
reference to the Regulations relating to the Sale of Milk in Great
* See page 126.