Litchfield enquirer., 1875-04-29
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 MR. EDToR:-I wish to use the columns of your paper to impart some information and advice to those of your readers who are interested in the milk business on the shepaGg k4lEoaH fhers' has faHsatly been passA W sthes legislatafe pf ey York State law giving the Board Of Health of the various towns and cities ar- britrary power to arrest any person end gagged in sAIlfng asiuitefased milk. and to fine such person fifty dollars and give them six days in the lookup for the first offeaee; and a fine of ltlirss haASfeA 41os1 lars and twenty days imprisonment for the second offences Tner Rere four arrests last week ill New York. Tn some cases the fault lies. with the milkman,. who has been guilty. of putting m the water after receiving the milk, and inssome cases the milk was poor when reeeiveas from the farmer The object of the iaY is r good one, and it will undoubtly produce good results m the end; but some farmers may have trouble from this law through igno- rance rather than dishonesty. and it is to such that l address this letter.
 The usualtmethod of testing 4he quality of the milk, by the Board of Health, after its arrival in New York, is with the lac tometer, the standard being 100 e. All milk falling below 1909 is condemned as adulterated; brt such is not the fact in every case. The feeding of cows has sometimes great deal to do with it.. Milk may stand 15o below the standard and yet be pure milk; but though pure it would certainly be very poor. Poor hay and no grain produce such milk. which Is just as worthless an article as though it were watered and the quality reduced to that point. The farmers must see to it that their milk is kept up to the standard by feeding such grains as will produce thatresult. A dairy of new milch cows should never be fed on light food, such as buckwheat or EheatI bran, New milk is always of lighter weight naturally than that given by. the same COWS after they have been milksd several months; and the light food tends to increase the quantity at the same time that it reduces the quality. Therefore, corn meal, or corn and oats ground together, should be fed to new milch COWS at this season of the year; and, if plenty of good early cut hay is fed with 1t, there is nolfeason for ttheir producing anything but standard article of milk. This matter must be attended to. or there will be mo market for the milk. Milkmen are very much excited, and decline to receive any milk that is so much below the standard as to make them liable to be arrested for selling it, or even having it in their possession. There is nothing alarming or objectionable in the operation of th1s law. if the farmers will see to it that their milk is all right; but, on the other hand, beneficial results will follow, and every good dairy will enjoy them. There will be a cleaning out of that class of milk which always floods the market, and also of that class of milkmen who are in the habit of making five cans of milk out of four, and of that class of farmers who ''scho neuer put drop of ,oater into their milk" ," but never fail of putting quart of water into their milk pails before sitting down to the COW to milk. Such producers remind me of Mir. Beecher's remark on Mrs. Moulton's evil dence; what they say "is in substance the truth. but in effect a lie. l" For my own part rejoice that the competition of poor milkiwith good isito be done 1aWsy with, knowing that better prices and better bus mess will surely be the result.
 ,-- F--% J.C. SHERWOOD.