Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1876-01-14

medicine administered to herself will
act promptly in the body of the nurs-
ing child. So will the milk Of the
COW not only convey medicinal effects,
but also whatever lniasna may have
entered her blood from drinking i'm
pure water, or from the feeding of
tainted whey, distillery Stops, and the
other denominations with which many
cows, and especially city cows are
fed, but it may also convey the germs
of amy disease to which the COW and
the human subject may be alike sub
ject.
1t is not necessary for us to show
just how the milk glands act in this
direction, nor the sympathy existing
between these and the other large
glands ofthe body. Some substances
act more promptly than others, as for
instance nitrate of potash will be
found III the milk, and in the urine in
Il short time, or less than half an
hour. Turpcntlnc will he found in
the kidneys often III Is minutes after
it is swallowed, They are facts easily
demonstrated, 50 the statement will
be sufficient.
Our idea is again to call the atten-
ton of readers OF the Western Fam
yournm to the necessity of not only
absolutely clean stables, and their
surroundings; to the dairy aud all its
vessels and its fixtures; to the danger
Of allowing cattle to drink pulrd and
other impure water, and especially to
the very prevalent use Of dislillcry
mash and other substances liable to
undue fermentation.
Take the whey Of factories for in
stance. Decay has begun always be-
fore 1t leaves the factory, and this
continues with ever increasing power
until digested, carrying with it fatal
germs into the milk and its products.
AT this season Of the year, of coulsc,
there can be no danger in this direc-
ton, since it is not the cheese making
season. 1t is, however, we'll known
rs anon. the causes of tainted
cheese.
In the winter season putrid germs
will often appear in the managers and
feeding troughs Of cows when kept
in warm stables, and if the stables be
allowed TO become foul for want of
proper cleaning, the odor will faint
the milk during the time of milking,
and to such Il degree sometimes as to
induce the belief that the COW had
stepped in the pail. We knew fam
lily to have qualms of sickness after
artaking Of milk They imagine
almost everything unlikely in this
connection except the right one
Tasting the milk we suspected the
cause at once, and the stables having
been thoroughly cleaned, and he
odor destroyed by proper means, the
cause Immediately disappeared. a
gentleman, himself once a large and
successful dairyman, lately related to
us his visit to gilt edge dairy in one
Of the New England States, where
seventeen Jersey COWS were kept
SAID he, once used to think | was
nice, but there the stable acos clean,
and us much care was taken to keep
the milk from foul odors of any kind,
as though life depended upon 1t. But,
said he, it paid. One dollar Il pound
was the price Of the butter, winter
or summer. That does pay. 1t will
pay relatively in the West, us we'll as
in the East, and does pay those few
dairymen who really manage their
dalrles as though they were chemical
laboratories where all processes must
be conducted with the greatest nicely.
Bat here we use the word nicely rs
relating to the feed and care of the
the milk and its products.