Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1858-06-08
More About the swin Milk Troubles

swill milk has been the staple item of the
New York newspapers for some time back-and
swill milk still is the great scare-crow of old
and young. First Frank Leslie, got up the
breeze in his ILLUSTRATED" great gains
thereby, doubtless; then the other papers sent
their reporters out pry into the stables, yards
and all the holes, ins and outs of the cow-dom
of New York The reporters came back like
unto the reporters that Joshua despatched over
Jordan, long time ago, and told fearful and
wonderful things about stump tailed, crumpled-
horned, fly-blowed and swill-fed COWS. We here,
in the good city of Wheeling, where We Can look
out in the country when get tired of looking
at the bricks and mortar, and see
aThe lowing herd wind slowly over the lea
homeward, to the milk yard, and, after they get
there, can almost discern the 'maid all forlorn,
us she squeezes away the strippings; we, we
say, can have but little sympathy with the swill
milk troubles of great Babylon. But the New
Workers have become aroused and determined to
know the worst The excitement, we see by
the last papers before us, has infected the Acade
my of Medicine and the debates of the learned
Esculapians are spread forth very voluminously.
One learned doctor, we notice, offered a strong
Whereas'' followed up by.a still stronger string
of ''Resolres," detailing how the babies and
other syoung 'uns' of New York were falling
like nipped buds, before the inroads of swill
milk
ANALYSIS OF THIS FELL DESTROYER,
BY Dr. John Griscorn, who seconded the afore-
said ''whereas, and accompanying resolves,
He said:
This was most important matter. The Ian
guage of the resolutions, though strong, was in
every respect true. The public mind was now
aroused to the enOrmity of the swlll-milk mis-
chief and the Academy could not do better
thing for humanity than to add the weight of
its Influence to the efforts now making for re-
form The analysis of diStillery milk by Law
renee Reed showed that it had more casein,
more sugar, less water, less butter, and double
the salts than are to be found in pure country
milk. Experiments made under the direction
of a committee of the Academy, showed that it
would not cOagulate soon as good pure milk.
Country milk coagulated at ninety weight degrees
of heat in one hour. The distilery milk. at the
same heat cougulated in six hours. The coag-
ulation is simply the qualification of the caSein
but as the distilIery milk has more casein than
pure milk, why does it not coagua.e sooner
than the pure? The reason, he believed, lay in
the fact that its larger proportion of salts held
it longer in solution, and hence a.greater amount
of acid was necessary to free it from them.
WORD ''rEK CONTRA
Dr. John Watson was not ready to vote for
the resolutions upon such reasons as had been
given. Reasoning prioriwas not satisfactory
chemical reasonings were not satisfactory
He would not admit that "a large proportion of
tue mortality is attrib table" to the use of dis
tillery milk, simply on the finding of chemist
that it has more cheese in it than country milk
What if ithas2 Cheese is very good article
of diet; many Europeans are very fond of it, and
freely use ii. Per Sc he knew no objection to
the milk on accounts of its large proportion of
cheese. If members want to testify against the