Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1875-10-08
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gret" at this discredit OF Prof Arnold's sup.
posed investigations" as follows
We are sorry that this cheating theory"
does not stand the test Of practice, for 1t was
a plausible theory and ia taking one" at the
conventions. Many dairymen were charmed
with the idea, aud putting faith in Mr. Ar
nod's statements, believed they had an easy
remedy for curing bad milk. But we re-
gret most Of all that the heating theory has
proved a failure, because, many persons who
have put faith in Mr. Arnold's supposed inves-
tigatiOus, will now regard them with distrust.
Dairmen, perhaps, more than any other class
Of men, are disposed TO hold writers on agri-
culture to strict account for what they teach,
and are often releptlessly uuforgiving to those
who lead them astray. We presume some
Of the Elgin dairymen had experimental
with the heating theory and were we'll ao.
quainted with the facts. Catching Mr. Ar
mold at Elgiu they set him TO work out his
formula, and the result was as above given.
Dairymen, however, will learn a useful
lesson from the failure of this theory, and
that is, that every effort should be made to
produce sound, healthy milk, and that IL is
better to manage so as TO get good milk as it
is drawn from the cows, than to hope 10 cs-
cape responsibility and the results ofbsd milk
by some merely theoretical process Of manipu-
lation. Mr. Arnold states that by the aid
Of an excellent miscroscope belonging to DR.
Teft of Elgin, he had an opportunity Of ex-
amining several samples of milk obtained
from four or FIVE different dairies. He found
in it PARTICLES of pus and three species Of
fungoid plants, evidently coming from stag
nant water which the COWS drank, and he
infers these must have existed in the milk
which had been subjected to the heating
process.
Prof Wickson of the Herald, in his COM
ments, very pertinentlS remarks as follows
This is very interesting matter. 1t is,
of course, in certain way related to the
whole question Of heating milk. for if heating
be advocated as an agency for the preserva-
tion Of milk which is suspected Of impure
character it should meet cases Of this kind
or else resign its claims to utility"
And again Prof Wickson says at looks
very much as though the claim that only
good milk can stand heating must be put
forth instead of only poor milk, as the claim
was at first.
The inefhcacy Of temperature of one
hundred and thirty degrees to destroy or
ganic germs can not be doubted, and that
this temperature only promotes their growth,
us Prof Arnold now concludes from this ex.
pertinent, conforms with the results reached
by many students Of the behavior of minute
ORGANISMS. IL NAV be found with milk, as
with some fabrics infected with disease germs,
that the application of heat enough to de-
stroy germ.lite will prove destructive also to
the material which is infected with them"
We are not aware that Mr. Arnold has
recommended heating milk in summer, or
that he has maintained that heating bad
milk to one hundred aud thirty degrees would
in all cases destroy organic germs of decay.