Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1876-05-05
Clear Water and Clean Feed for Cows.

In order TO have pure and healthful
milk a5 an article of human food, the
COWS must be supplied with clear water
and food that is destitute of matter in
state of decomposition, and that is free
aI4o f-as-. all t,A.-ssa.a4 aIara Mill of
prime quality cannot be made by feeding
half-decayed apples, defective potatoes
and moldy food of any sort. A writer in
the Farmers AdUOcdte states that milk
is scavenger of the cows body" which
is fact well understood by medical au.
thorities We once owned a COW on one
side of the face of which appeared bony
Her milk was unfit for human food, for
the reason that the fresh and smoking
liquid smelled as offensive as the tumor
The COW was allowed to rear calf, but
the eXcrementitious matter of that young
animal emitted a strong odor, precisely
like the stencil of the foul tumor on the
jaw of the dam. If cows are required to
drink stagnant and offensive water, their
milk cannot be pure. The large amount
of liquid passing the udder of a COW
makes that liquid an efficient tlux for re-
moving everything from the blood that is
not needed there There are great many
things that get into the blood in some way
which circulate and pass out with the
nutritive elements. The essential oils of
plants which give them distinctive flavor
or Odor, as of turnips, onions, etc, the
| putrid matter in rotten potatoes, decaylng
grass, or any and every other food in a
state of decomposition, will find their way
out of the system through milk. 1t is a
fact which must have been noticed by all
observing farmers and their families that
medicinal agencies, taken into the stom-
achs of all milk giving animals, reappear
In the milk of such animals. No
fact is more notorious than that
any medicine given to nurs-
ing mother will affect the child in
exactly the same way it does the mother,
the medication being carried through the
milk of the mother TO the stomach OF the
child in such large proportions as to make
the effect upon the child as active as upon
the mother This inclination of the milk
glands to carry off medicinal matter from
the body of the milk giving mother is not
an isolated inclination to carry foreign
matter from the system. Disease is car.
ried as readily as medicine. Any and
every disease which taints the blood, as
smallpox, measles, typhoid fever, scrofu
la or consumption, are transmitted through
milk as readily as the effects of medicine
The excretory power Of the milk gland
uOeS not SlOp WIN carrying on uleulCll
and disease. 1t extends to all foreigl
matter floating in the blood of the milk
producing animals. Nor is the powe
confined to the milk glands. 1t belong
to the other glands as we'll All the larg
/, glands of the body act as scavengers. Blu
each has function of its own, to whic
it is more specially adapted. The live
= and kidneys are more active in carryin
: off foreign and waste mineral matter;
, while the central glands are more activ
! in ejecting organic substances. Thes
functions, however, run into each othel
: The oil of turpentine will appear in tn
. secretions of the kidneys in fifteen mil
! utes after being swallowed, and nitrate {
potash will about as soon appear, to som
extent, in milk as well MS in urine. Viii
y = the milk glands are not very ditferel
I from other large glands in their gener
u action, their functions have an intere
/ above all others in a sanitary and econon
{ ical point of view.
!; The foregoing facts will furnish an in
u pressive hint concerning their poor butt
! to those proprietors of COWS who requi
! their animals to drink at stagnant pond
N. Y. Herald.