The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1874-12-18
gpmre, farm and garden
n1PuRE B11LK
Important Facts for Produces cf nI-lit
aad Butter.

same persons viii not, perhaps, De as
ready to admit that the quality as well
as the quantity Of mix may be affected
by such treatment. And yet such l. ~
indisputabIe fact.
Hancock county can boast ol 10
large dairies, and yet statistics for 1873
show that she produces Gao, ,3z9 pounds
of butter in her eighteen townships,
Union leading the van with 50, GoJ
ponnds. 4 single firm in Findiay, he
Kinnis, Davis & Co., report the ship
ment this season Of over 112. 900 pounds.
III will thus be seen that this industry
In our county is a leading one, and that
no greater service can be done those en-
oaoed In IT than the dissemination OF
correct information in regard to what
will increase the quantity and improve
the quality Of the milk Nor Is this a
question OF dollars and cents alone, if
we are TO believe the evidence OF scien-
tihc men, who have given this matter
ratient and careful Investigation.
The following facts condensed from
an article in a late number OF the Ae7'-
cal and Surgical Reporter, by Dr. j.
Il. Crothers, of Albany, y. J., siiouia
n. read and carefully considered;
After referring to the almost uniyeT-
sal use of milk as a diet, and the many
cases reported during the last year in
which It was evident that impure milk
had much to do with the source OF tie
disease, DIR. c. gives several instances
He first gives an instance Of family
affected with diarrhea, which appeared
IN he more severe among the younger
members Of the family. On inquiry ne
learned that milk entered largely INTO
the diet of the family, especially on
Sunday. when The disease appeared to
be much aggravated, unless checked by
medicines. On examination, it was
found that tie COW from which milk
was procured, had been for three
months confined in n close stall IA "A
brick sstable, without ventilation, the
doors and windows kept closed to pre-
vent the escape of a few hens kept IN
the dark and filthy apartment The
food proyided for the COW was garbage
from the street, in the shape Of decayed
vegetables, cooked and raw, alternated
with brewers grains once a day. As
soon as the use Of the milk was discon-
tinued the family recovered. DIR. Z.
next gives an instance Of an elderly
gentleman. who, while recovering from
an attack of intermittent fever, by ad-
vice of bis physician, commenced Tree
use of milk. In four days an exhanf
i've diarrhea set in. which bafiied all medi-
cal skill, and resulted in death IN SIX
days. The family of tine owner OF the
COW from which the milk was furnished,
suffered from diarrhea, and an examin-
alton established the fact that the COW
was kept in the same manner as the one
above mentioned. As soon as she was
turned out of the illy-ventilated stable,
and furnished with sufficient amount Of
wholesome food, the sickness in the
family ceased.
A severe case Of diarrhea, that Of
a middle aged man, which terminated
fatally In four weeks, was directly
traced as the result of milk from swill
fed cows
DIR. c. tiien cites two instances in
which typhoid fever was communicated
through impure milk, one which oc-
Cured near Glasgow, Scotland, III
1928, in which 30 ont of the 80 falni-
lie, supplied by one dairy, were afiiict-
ed. while families supplied by other
dairies were totally exempt; and anoth-
er in one of the healthiest suburban
districts OF London, where 500 cases of
typhoid fever were found distributed in
lO4 families, SO of which were supplied
with milk from one dairy. The conta-
gion was directly traced to the water
supplied to the COWS, which had been
polluted by drainage from the sewers.
He also refers TO many well authentica-
ted cases, marked by violent purging
and cramping, which could be directly
traced to the milk used, which was found
TO contain animalcula, supposed to be
taken up in the drinking water, and de-
a.-gTap,
But another great source of milk
poison, and one TO which we call the
especial attention of our readers, is the
harsh treatment OF milch COWS, which
undoubtedly affect the quality as well as
the quality of the milk. Any intelligent
physician will assure you that vio.ent
emotions or shocks of the nervous sys-
TEN of nursing mothers seriously and
often fatally affects their nursing Off
spring. After giving a number of such
instances, which are well authenticated,
DIR. C. goes on to show that the same
condition of things may be traced in the
lower orders of the mammalia, and
gives several cases in point, in which
children had been seriously affected by
milk from cows which had been beaten
and maltreated while being milked. He
cites an instance in point. A gentle
man of Albany, who lad been advised
to use the milk OF a young blooded
COW for his infant child, purchased a
COW whose first calf was running by her
side. After using the milk about two
months. the child which had been unu-
suaily healthy, suddenly broke out with
a rash, which developed into pustules.
and was pronounced scrofulous by tie
physician In attendance. This was fol-
lowed by fever which seemed to affect
the brain and nervous system; the
bowels, in the meantime, suffering from
intestinal irritation, alternately relaxed
and constipated. While using the milk
the child was continually under the care
of physicians, and after the second
year had a weak, broken-dowr, nervous
system. 1t had been afterwards ascer-
tained that the COW had been regularly
driven into close stall to be MIXED,
and that this treatment had been con-
tiuued throughout the season. Could
there be a doubt that under such cir
cumstanees the milk was impure, IN
wholesome, poisonous.