The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1882-02-25
Sk1u-Mitk.

The absurdity ana almost criminal folly OF
a parcel of scientific men and lawyers beiog-
ging and pettitogging jury until the latter
actually believe that skim milk is an unwhole-
some food, grows upon one rs time IS given to
contemplate IT,
Few people know better than the learned
President of the Board OF Health that skim
milk is an article of food upon which man
will live and do well, If absolutely confined
to lt-neither eating or drinking anything
else, while he would die if confined To cream.
The Professor would give this testimony II put
upon the stand He would, of course, claim
that the whole milk is more neatly perfect
food, which is true; but OF what other article
of food, with the single exception OF pure
whole milk, is it possible trurhfully to CLAIM
so much? Yet this is branded as unhealth
full and its sale is prohibited III our CHIEF
cities.
Skimmilk is the milk of the country
Oity children go to the country-to grandma's
and have all the milk they want to drink,
and in the course of two or three weeks grow
fat and rosy and after month one would
hardly know them. The fresh air and the
sunshine and the pure country milk thus
d. their work and prove their excellence.
What ls this mik2 Does the thrifty old lady
who has worked her own golden butter for forty
years give new milk to the children? Not
much. The new milk is set for cream and
only pan or two may be SKINNED while
sweet tor the children and the family TO drink
and for other domestic purposes In fact
cream is a luxury which most farmers taml
lies deny themselves so that the quantity of
butter (Which means ready money may be IN
creased and skim milk, which our rulers
would and do deny us city people, Is the milk
which country people live upon, so lar as our
experience goes.
The experience of the city of Hartford, as
we have heard it, is in point. Some years ago
the city was supplied with milk chiefly by a
few men who had mix farms near the city,
having big milking cows and forcing great
yield of milk with brewers grains and such
fecds : creamery was established in neigh
boring llage few miles away, and after a
while the skim milk from this establishment
found its way into Hartford, where 1t was sold
AZ skim milk at half the price of She milk from
the milk farms, and 1t was found to be nearly
or quite as good The children throve on H.,
the housewives approved of 1t TOR puddings,
etc The mlkmen were in dismay, except in
deed those few old fashioned farmers who had
small routes and not good price for there X
oellent rich milk, and held their customers IN
spite of the "sklm-milk peddlers."
The skim.milk proved great boon to the
people. Prejudice against it soon wore away.
'pUIN EOOu HIN COihpCtC WIN oh"
its sale has steadily increased. Other cream
cries send III their skim-mtlk and the sale tor
good pure milk is not hurt thereby.
pint of skim milk .................-....2c cts.
Two penny rolls. .....................'2 cts
Makes a good meal for Observation-Disclosures. 4 cts
which would satisfy any man or child If hun
cry, and ought to reverse the decision Of even
New York Judge and jury and professor
Of chemis.ry.-The american DairymdR.