New-York tribune., 1872-05-21
Total amt daily purchased as Mill

Total amt daily purchased as milk. $500
This amounts to about 100000 gallons each month"; or
n tho seven months which the milk trade - yeest
to an amount equal to the capacity OF the dsibuunS
reservoir at Fortysecond-st Assuming the percentage
Of water in the above estimate to be correct nd the
general average has invariably been found TO range
much hgher the rate OF 10 cents per quarthe pres
ent price of mkthe people Of NewYork City are daily
defrauded out of ssO, s2,7OO0OO per year paid ny
them to the milnan for water in their milk In Brook
lyn Jersey City, and other suburbs the loss by aduter
ton will swell this to fully SlooOoCoa year 20 the meFop
oils proper.
The disastrous effects Of this adueration extend be-
yond the pecunary loss to the community and IN large
measure affect its health An eminent physician OF the
city SAYS that in the upper and middle classes OF society
about onethrd Of the infants unable from climatic
and other causes to obtain nourshment from the
mothers breast and the milk Of the cow has to be used
as a substitute the closest care beng exercised Dy
the attendant or nurse that the milk Is fresh ana
free from curdle because the tender and deae 0Ses
tive organs Of the infant tue slightest suspicion
of acid or astrngent But in spite OF all care IN many
cases of which he has known, infants pned away under
the nourshment thus obtained ard although the mix
gave no perceptibe evidence Of being sour or impure
when taken yet subsequent facts left no doubt that
death was caused by the character Of the milk fed on
Dr. Willard Parker Prof. Doremus, DR.. Draper, and
others concur in stating that himself cannot survive
without the peculiar property ana nourishment which
are found most abundantly in pure milk, aud (which
enter I'm greater or proportions into nearly all other
articles Of food and that therefore, In the case Of the
infant which takes nothing else, it is matter OF vital
importance that the milk it drinks should be absolutely
pure.
that the prices have become regulated by it, and hardly
margin enough is left enable the dealer in absolutely
pure milk to sell profit. The farmer mas Oeen driven
from remuneratve price for his milk to losing one
bv the tricks and schemes Of middlemen. He has been
told over and again that the milk market over
stocked the supply greater than the demand and that
milf has TO be sold very low in consequence The truth
ia that the market oyersocked simply because or the
adueration and without inspection and regulation Dy
the public officials the adulteraon will be Increased
with the demand. While nearly all the milk which ar
rves in the city is subsequently aduerated some of 1t
Is robbed of its cream and substance before
.. "a nut on the cars. The propretors OF
some of the butter factories in Orange County
buv ND the mix from the farmers, and making
the cream into butter, send 9e ssmmik 10 persons In
this city, who aduerate it still more with water, ana
afterward with chalk and other Substances to de the
first aduteration the farmer is held to strict ac-
countahility and must furnish the speeuator and
vender alike pure article, leaving 1t to them alone TO
perform the aduteratons and benefit by the mposons
on the public. The speculator goes provided WIN MS
aetometer and examines the specific gravity OF tno
milk he purchases from the farmer ana as u sometimes
bappens that the milk of light weight Oh account OF
some constitutional affection in the COW ana from no
act Of adueration the part OF tho farmer 'he a,r
ia informed that his milk is unsalabe and ne Is FORTH
with comnelled 10 purchase cows, sell the Old ones
at discount for slaughter, or part with his mig at
ruinous rates.
Many Of the milkmen Of the two cities enter into con-
tracts directly with the farmers TO supply them with
milk at stated prices during the different months OF the
wear nayments being made at the end OF every three
month In many eases farmer ands himself charged
with deductions for milk received below the standard
and hs check is for much smaller amount than he an
ticpated receiving; he denies the adulteraon ana Is
divided In opinion as TO whether milk was aostracted
and water substituted while the were In transit OF
whether the milk dealer is claiming an unjust reduction;
makes an effort TO discover the truth but OF course sue
ceeds only in discovering that he Is mueted Tor AN aa
| teration he knows nothing about. -
The farmer also suffers losses In his eans wheh
| he supplies TO the milkmen. Inc cost Vi '"eSo
| range from IS TO o. apiece, and as thsf receive
| rough handling IN the cars ana pa'iofns'
last buts short time; many Of them are lost oil the ROAD
pverv month search made along the line Oh the Ere
road and large numbers OF picked up with the
oe ~ the owner oDterated, or the can found irre-
rabv battered and injured and, OF course empty The
FARMERS are compelled keep double set OF cans IN
or1er 20 keen the milkman supplied one set coming To
hin, empty while the other leaves him filed with his
milk, and il he sends large quantity to the city, MS
outlay for cans u ,nsserable during thsysar lie aux