Excerpt from Report of the Special Milk Board of the Massachusetts State Department of Health: Submitted to the Commissioner of Health and Public Health Council, December 29, 1915 Originally it was intended to confine this investigation to the public health aspects of milk production and distribution. Because of the closely interwoven connection between the economic and sanitary features of the milk problem your Board soon found that such a procedure was impossible, and we have, therefore, endeavored to cover the entire problem in a com prehensive manner. The report is seriously incomplete from one important stand point, the total number of producing dairies personally visited by members of your Board. We estimate that in all we have seen possibly 2 per cent. Of the producing farms supplying milk to Massachusetts consumers. As far as possible we have endeavored to select typical sections, and feel that in reality we have by this procedure obtained a much truer picture of aver age dairy conditions than if we had concentrated our visits in a smaller area and possibly visited a considerably higher per centage of the total producing dairies. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.