Antibiotics in Milk

impression that the veterinary surgeon is entirely to blame for the unsatisfactorily large amounts of antibiotics in milk leaving dairy farms, may I be permitted to add a small rider ?The veterinary surgeon all too often arrives in the cowshed to find that intramammary antibiotics have already been obtained by the farmer, and may have already been used.Furthermore, the practitioner may not be informed of such treatment.The veterinary profession is seriously concerned about the dangers of such circumstances, and the Veterinary Record of the same date as your own article devotes four pages to the subject.The law provides for supervision of distribution of antibiotics to farmers, but in the farmer's and everybody's interests more effective control must be implemented.-Iam, etc.,