Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1882-02-23
Skinl-Milk.

The absurdity and almost criminal
folly of parcel of scientific men and
lawyers befogging and pettifogging a
jury until the latter actually believe
that skm-milk is an unwholesome food,
grows upon one as time is given to con-
template 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 it
neither eating OR drinking anything
else, while he would die if confined to
cream. The Professor would give this
| testimony if put upon the stand. He
would of course, claim that whole milk
is more nearly perfect food, which is
| true; but of what other article OF food.
with the single exception of pure whole
milk, is it possible truthfully to claim so
much? Yet this is branded as TN
healthful, and its sale is prohibited in
our chief cities.
Skim-milS is the smilk'' of the coun-
try. City children go to the country
to grandma sand have all the milk
they want to drink, and in the course of
two or three weeks grow fat and rosy,
and after a month one would hardly
know them. The fresh air and the sun
shine and the ''pure country milk thus
do their work and prove their excellence.
| What is this milk? 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 for
the children and the family to drink
and for other domestic purposes. In
fact, cream is luxury which most
farmers families deny themselves so
that the quantity of butter (Which
means ready money! may be increased:
and skim-milk, which our rulers would
and do deny us city people, is the milk
which country people live upon, SO far
as our own experience goes.
The experience of the city of Hart
ford, as we have heard it, is in point.
Some years ago the city was supplied
with milk chiefly by a few men who
had milk farms near the city, having
big milking COWS and forcing a great
yield of milk with brewers grains and
such feeds. A creamery was estab-
lished in a neighboring village few
miles away, and after a while the skim
milk from this establishment found it's
way into Hartford, where it was sold as
skim-milk at half the price of the milk
from the milk farms, and it was found
to be nearly or quite as good. The
children throve on it, the housewives
approved of it for buildings, etc. The
milkmen were in dismay, except in
deed those few old-fashioned farmers
who had small routes and got good
price for their excellent rich milk, and
held their customers in spite of the
'..skim-milk peddlers.'
The skim-milk proved a great boon to
the people. Prejudice against it soon
wore away. Only good milk could COM
pete with it, and its sale has steadily in
creased. Other creameries send in their
skim-milk, and the sale for good pure
milk is not hurt thereby.
A pint of skim-milk ......................2c cts.
Makes good meal for. a cts.
which would satisfy any man or child if
hungry, and ought to reverse the decis-
ion of even New York Judge and jury
and professor of chemistry.-Ihe
american Daia.ynaan.
"A German manufacturer has sue
ceeded in producing serviceable face
masks of mica for the protection of
metal and glass-melters, stone-masons
and other Workmen exposed to heat
dust and noxious vapors. These masks
allow the eyes to be turned in any
and there is space enough
for spectacles in case the eyesight is de-
fective.
A widow at the West, intending to
succeed her husband in the management |
of a hotel, advertised that g the hotel |
would be kept by the widow of the for
mer landlord, Mr.. Brown. who died last |
summer on a new and improved PLAN
The laborers living in the small: |
town of Pennomene, near Panama, and |
working on the De Lesseps canal, re-
fused to be vaccinated. During the past |
three months upward of one thousand |
deaths have taken place there from
smallpox.
Mr.. Labouchere says of Mr.. Glad |
stone that he is too kind and long-snf-
fering. and that his opponents take adj