Proceedings of the Third Session What Can be Added to Our Laboratory Methods and Standards to Improve Certified Milk, J. Traum, D. V. M., University of California, Berkeley.. 119 Proceedings Ninth Annual Conference American Association of Medical Milk Commissions The Ninth Annual Conference of the American Association of Medical Milk Commissions was held at San Francisco, California, on June 17, 18 and 19, 1915; the first day's sessions being held in the San Francisco Municipal Auditorium, and the concluding sessions at the University of California, Berkeley, California, under the Presidency of Dr. T. C. McCleave, Oakland, California; Dr. Otto P. Geier, Cincinnati, Ohio, Secretary. First Session-Thursday Morning-June 17th The first session was called to order by T. C. McCleave, M. D., Oakland, California, President of the Association, in Hall D, of the San Francisco Municipal Auditorium, at 10:00 A. M. on Thursday, June 17, 1915. President McCleave: We will omit the roll-call as the registration cards will show who is here, and we will call for the reading of the minutes. Secretary Geier: I would suggest that we dispense with the reading of the minutes for the present, and also the Report of Council, inasmuch as we were unable to get a quorum last night, and accordingly the Council could not meet. President McCleave: We will first hear then the Reports of Commissions. I will call on Dr. Ludlum for the Report of his Commission. Reports of Commissions Dr. Walter D. Ludlum read the Report of the Milk Commission of the Medical Society of the County of Kings, Brooklyn, New York, as follows: Report of the Milk Commission of the Medical Society of the County of Kings, State of New York We have eleven large farms now supplying Certified Milk for Brooklyn. These farms represent an investment of considerably over $600,000. The feeling among our producers is absolutely certain that there is always going to be a demand for milk which has been made clean and sanitary in the beginning on the farm. Otherwise there would have been hesitancy in tying up this great amount of capital. Men who make milk realize often better than those who use milk what quality in milk means. Our Milk Commission would have erred seriously if we had encouraged this great investment without a knowledge born of twelve years of study and experience, that for certain purposes nothing can take the place of clean natural cow's milk-unheated and untreated in any way. Good basic or raw material is absolutely essential to the production of a high class finished product in nearly all lines and this is no less true of milk. It has always been the desire of the Commission to furnish the profession an absolutely reliable basic product in this milk for their use in modifying or changing to suit their desires in infant feeding or other professional work. Some measures of our progress can be known from the fact that at the end of our first year's work we had five farms producing 175 quarts of Certified Milk daily, whereas we have only eleven farms, but with a production of over 8,000 quarts daily. This move along lines of concentration has helped us in our absolute control of the product. We have had variable success with milking machines. One farm which has been using these machines for a year and three months still continues to give good results. Three other farms |