Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1872-01-05
Farm and FzreS1ae.
DE.sTH ~ THE .uEEKP.sIA.

Not long since Prof Low of Cornell uni
versily observed popularity in the cream
from the milk furnished by the milkman.
1t appeared to he ropy, and on subecting
il to an examination under a powerful mi
croscope, il was found to contain large
number of living organisms in different
stages of growth. Pushing his investiga-
tons further, the professor called upon the
milkman to inquire concerning the man
agement and keep of his cows, and. the
manner in which the milk was cared for.
Here he found on looking over the premi-
scs that the cows, for lack of good, clean
water-the season being unusually dry
were forced to Stake their thirst in stag
nant pool located in a muddy swale. TAX
ing specimens Of this water and examining
ii under the microscope, the same class of
organisms was found as those in the milk.
1t was now pretty evident where the cause
of the trouble lay; hut to make the matter
more clear, specimens of blood were taken
from the cows and examined under the
microscope, when these also were found to
contain the same class of organisms. The
animals, on applying thermometer tests
for determining health or disease, were
found to be hot and feverish, thus show
ing that these living organisms introduced
through the medium of the filthy water
and taken into the circulation, and by
their power of reproduction and multiple
cation in the blood became the source of
disease. Investigating still further, par
ticle of the filthy wafer was introduced in
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known, from tests TO be in good Order and
in a short time the same filthy organisms
multiplied and took possession of it in
vast numbers, producing the same charact
er of milk as that first noticed. Other eX-
periments and Investigations were made,
out all similar in results to those we have
described. These facts are of very great
importance TO dairymen and although it
was known that the milk from cows drink
ing the putrid or foul water of sloughs and
mud holes had caused much trouble at
cheese factories, still, dairymen hardly ap-
preciated the full extent of the trouble, or
were aware of the precise nature of the in
jury caused by such water. Ifthe lives Of
these foul organisms are not destroyed
when taken up by cows in their drink, but
pass into the circulation, tainting the blood,
entering the secretions and establishing
their filthy abode in the milk, there to in
crease and multiply in vast numbers, caus-
ing the milk TO be mass of filth, then il is
reasonable to suppose that persons partak-
ing of this milk, even when freshly drawn,
are liable to have their blood also inocula-
ted, and thereby contract disea @. Who
can say that malignant levers and fatal cpl
denies do not often originate from these
sources? The facts brought out in these
investigations would seem to warrant the
suppostion. AT any rate they are of a
character'sufficiently startling, and should
arrest attention of those who have the care
OF milk stock, and who are in the habit of
using milk freely. They prove that good,
clean water is at least a prerequisite for the
COW TO yield good, h, althy milk, and that
there is more danger in allowing stock to
slake thirst in foul, stagnant pools, Than
has commonly been supposed. -Rurdl Ncw
Yorker.