California Farmer and Journal of Useful Sciences, Volume 49, Number 15, 28 August 1879 — MILK ITEMS. [ARTICLE]

MILK ITEMS.

I quote from Dr. Henry A. Mott Jr., Adulteration of Milk. The amount of water added by milkmen ranges between 10 and M per cent. T>r. Chandler, from numerous and valuable investigations of the milk supply of New York, concluded that the average milk sold consisted of threequarters milk and one-quarter water. The 120,---000,000 quarts of milk sent annually to New York receive an addition of 40,000,000 quart* of water, which sold at 10 cents per quart brings $4,000,000 per annum, or $12,000 per day. And I regret to add that many of the cowa yielding this milk are forced to drink foul water. That watered milk robs children of a proper proportion of their accustomed nutriment, is a fact, not controvertible ; but it does not tell the whole truth. Children fed by rule on such milk may and doubtless are half starved. And a child in this condition is infinitely more liable to contract disease, and far less able to resist that disease in an enfeebled state than children iv robust health aud with a sound constitution.

Milk from a diseaaed cow, or from bad food and bad water will cause, and does cause sickness in thousands of children in this city. And added

to this privation, the poor tenement-house children, deprived of light and air, and suffocated with sewer gasos must succumb uuder a depressing temperature of from 85 to 08 deg. F. and suffer and die by scores and hundreds.

Milk from newly calved cows and those sick and feeble from lack of pure air and good food, rapidly decomposes and irritates the delicate educative organs of feeble children, causing sickness and premature death. Read before the Farmer's Club of the Am. Inst. June 10, 187'J, by A. S. Heath, M. D.