, 1873-08-15

10 the Editor Or 1he Ch9caT0 1T70NnEs
sm: Tho complaint arisos from every houao-
hold and every consumer of milk in the city,
"Why docs all tho milk we buy 80 strikingly re-
Bomblo Lako Michigan? Tho answer il not dif-
faoult, nor would tho question DO asked, could
the inquirers DO permitted to SOC tho milk from
tho timo 1t leavaH the COW to tho timo 1t entors
tho mouth OF tho consumer.
Each dairyman-fooling confident that the milk
from his COVE, owing to thor good condition aud
excellent keeping, s superior to TINT from other
cows, and will boar little water md thon bc
equal to other dairymon's milk; and foo1ing al
40 that it will 10 reduced little by some ono
boforo it roachos tho consumer, and ho might as
welI-indeed better-introduca little of his
pure woll-water, as for another to add impure,
unwholcsome water, adda water enough, In Lis
Judgment, to make tho quality only equal to tho
milk of otherB.
In this, however, hc oftcn, owing to tho OK
altod opinion be ontortainB Of tho superiority of
his own milk, over that of his noighborn, and
not having sample Of his neighbor = at haud.
adds little moro wator than le roally intends
to.
Tho milk Is thon, in it's reduced condition, sold
to tho middleulnn, who takeH it from Tho country
station to tho city. Tho mtddleman not know
ing that tho milk boars q stronger resemblance
to Tho woll than tho COW, by reason Of the farm
milk he gota from the farmers iB vastly superior
to that sold by others in the city; and knowing
TINT there Is nothing puror than tho water Of
Lake Michigan, ndds to tho already reduced fluid
furthor supply Of water.
who distribute it among tho consumers through
out tho city. Before deliyory, however, not
knowing that the milk has already boon swollen
BY its own quantity Of water, but supposing it to
be fresh as 1t comes from tho COW, and having
that fha HfHn1qH H1p hfa ot1ato orn
not sufficiently strong to boar milk Of full
strength, the city-dealera give 1t another copi-
ouB draft OF water.
Thus the milk. by tho time it Is ready to bo
with 9 little milk in it.. Often times, to avoid
detection, little chalk or other substance is
added to it.
Of thlB white watob bordering largely upon
snS and pe a he RSRS eo sied ' for ox % Eo
article. Not only arc tho people paying for
various Ingredients mixed with tic
milk are positively injurious to tho health Of tho
people.
Whatcan be done2 Can anything DO done7
is tho inquiry Of tho whole people.
Yes, something can and ought to be done to
prevent this universal cheat and fraud.
Iwonld suggest, az . remedy for. tho cyl, that
Hpector," and flied by competent person,
whose duty it shnll bo to analyze portion Of
any milk brought to him for that purpose, mud
giyo to the person buying the same, for . roason-
ablo compensation, certificate Of tho COM
ponent parts Of the milk. This would placa il
within tho reach Of all to have tholr milk
Rnaly2od.
II, tllen, any consumer Ind reason to beliovo
that adultorated milk wns being sold to lin, ho
could haye that fact determined without the
analyzer knowing who sold the milk, and no
rnf11Aj0n betWann tho nna{VX1r and tho vnnfnr
of tho milk could possibly exist.
Then the vendor Of tho milk should bo by law
held strictly responsible for all such aduftera-
ton, BY flno, and, il necessary, imprisonment.
BY ths mems. am satisfied, the, groat abuse
would bo entirely doue away with.
a M1LK-CoNRUMEn.
ou1oAao, Aug. II, 1878.