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The significance of these figures lies in the fact that all samples, no matter how
grossly adulterated, have been included. The table entirely refutes the statement,
frequently made in court and elsewhere, that farmers have difficulty in producing
milk to satisfy the minimum limits prescribed by the Sale of Milk Regulations.
Milk of the minimum standard of quality is far below the general average of that
yielded by any herd of cows in fair condition. Indeed, it is only extremely rarely
that a herd of cows, properly fed and under healthy conditions, have yielded
a milk of so low a quality as would correspond to the minimum standard. Milk
is the chief, and at times, the only food of infants and invalids, and on this ground
alone, it is important that its quality should be kept up, and that every effort should
be made to prevent its being rcduced to a comparatively low minimum.