Collection	Dixon Public Library Archive Photo Collection
Date of photo	1915
Description	Timm Certified Dairy in Dixon, California.Photo showing Timm home, barns and outbuildings with Holstein cows grazing in alfalfa pasture in foreground. Inscription on back of photo states as follows: The Certified Dairy at Dixon was one of the several operated under the sponsorship of Medical Milk Commissions. The establishment of these commissions was due to the conviction of doctors that the consumption of impure milk was the cause of high infant mortality. Such Commissions were set up in San Francisco and Oakland. Their function was to authorize a dairy as Certified if its operators accepted certain rigid rules. The Timm Certified Dairy was one of five which operated in the State.. It came to be the largest and most widely known in the United States. Donated by Emma Jane Timm, wife of Henry R. Timm
Object ID	2005.4.29
Object Name	Print, Photographic
People	Timm, H. R.
Subjects	Agriculture Dairies Alfalfa Barns Timm Certified Dairy
Title	Timm Dairy

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Last modified on: December 10, 2010