The morning call., 1891-06-21
CALIFORNIA DAIRY PRODUCTS.
Sketch of the Leading Dairy
Farms Where the Most
NUTRITIOUS Mix Can Be o.
tanned, and What Thrift,
Care and Industry Have
Done to Build Them Up.

Milk is one Of the articles of food con-
tanning all tie nutTitive constituents neees-
sary to sustain healthy condition Of life.
II has been since the dawn Of pastoral life
one Of the chief mainstays of mankind in
health and in sickness. Without it the
population of the world would diminish in
number rapidly, and thus it may be truth
fully said that the prosperity and the con-
tinued existence Of mankind depend largely
upon the quality and quantity of the milk
supply. The degree of health and prosper
ity Of a people must then depend in about
the same ratio as the impurity and deficiency
increases, and the number Of deaths will in
crease in proportion as the milk diminiShes
in power to sustain life.
Two substances in daily use contain, each
of them, The elements necessary TO support
life. The first is milk. which consists Of
carbonaceous, nitTOgenOus and phosphate
elements in watery menstruu m the second
Is wheat provided that the -four used is gra-
ham or unbOlted.
Strange 10 say however, they are Of all
food stuffs the most Bdulterated and re-
duced in nutTitiye quality. The milk by
watering, sknming, and the substitution Of
that Of sickly or ill-fed cows. The wheat
by tie process Of manufacturing Of fine
white -four, whereby it is deprived of al
most all nitTOgeuous and phosphate ele-
ments.
Life is held very cheaply when consumers
viii not take the trouble to ascertain posi-
lively whether the milk they give their
children Will sustain life or MT From the
cradle TO the grave it is the essence of life,
and citizens are not sale IN using milk I'M
less they are very careful aud give the
matter their most thorough personal atten-
ton, and will not be until the municipal
authorities can be prevailed upon to take
the matter in hand and establish some
system Of protection against unWh0lesOme
milk, that can be relied on.
Fer infants, milk is the only safe and
therefore requisite diet Before eight
months, the glands which secrete the fluid
hy which starchy food is digested have not
developed. The success which the lower
animals have in rearing theiE young 10
maturity ought to be lesson TO our boosted
civilization, where nearly One-haf of the
children die before reaching the age Of five
wears. Milk. pure and simple, should be
given TO infants properly diluted and
swPetened; and TO children, with insist
euce that it be drunk slowly, and in much
larger quantity than is usual
Too great care cannot be exercised, or con-
sideTation given TO the question as 10 where
the family shall obtain its milk supply, as the
health Of the children depends largely upon
lis sweetness and absolute purity. Nothing
takes up tie evils of the surrounding atmOs-
uhere more quickly or surely than milk,
and there is no question, as the leading
medical authorities Of the present age are
a unit upon this subject, that vast major
ity of the diseases that at present affiict
mankind are traceabie to bad and impure
milk
The public should not be deceived into
the belief that it is wise economy TO buy
cheap milk, as the reverse is unqueStiOuably
the case, as it is being penny wise and
pound foolish ana it is better to pay the
miikman than the doctor.
As milk is peculiarly susceptible Of faint
and OdOr Of all kinds it is OF the
utmost Importance that all vessels in
which il is placed OF kept be so made as
10 he easily purified ard that tley should
be kept scTupulOuSiy clean. In Switzerland
milk is strained with most beneficial effects
through sprigs Of washed fir tops, which, III
serted loosely aud uITightly into the hole Of
a funnel. arrest all hair, skin, chap and
Shiny matter on the aciculaT leaves. The
milk drains through III a clean condition
with fresh, slightly aT0matized flavor fav-
oTable to its keeping. A fresh sprig is used
on each occasion Of stralning milk, so that
there is freedom from the risk Of faint
which arises through the use Of imper-
fectly cleaned wire gauZe.
All systems Of preservation are subject to
serious disadvantages, either from their
serving theH purpose Tor too limited a time
=
and properties of the milk. OF all preseTVa-
tives cold is the most efficient and least Oh
jPcIiQnablP. In the case Of any suspicion Of
faint in the milk, either from disease in the
cow, contamination from unhealthy per-
sons or the use OF infected water in cleaning
vessels, LOiling is strongly recommended,
as it effectuaily destroys the germs Of dis
ease in the carrying and spreading Uf which
milk is q most active agent.
The chief mode Of sophisticating milk for
sale consists IN the addition OF water and IN
the subtraction Of cream, in other words
passing off skinned OF partly skinned as
new milk. The other refuements on these
simple frauds are adding a quantity Of sugar
TO correct the specific gravity, flour or starch
to increase opacity, and touch Of cOloIing
matter TO cover the blush tinge which
would betray skinned milk, and worst of
al certain alkilies which absorb and eat up
all the Dutriment Abernethy was aceus-
toned to say of milk that IL was the
most nutritious Of all things and Prout
characierZes II rs the true type Of all foods.
u ne word dairy" is derived from the old
English word ''dey," a milk-maid. and Orfgi-
naily designated the place assigned to her
work.
American dairyIng as a specially can
hardly be considered a century old. Dairy-
ing as a specially was pTactced In England
and Holland. and In other parts Of Europe
previous 10 the sixteenth century, and the
early emigTants to America must have
brought with them the art Of butter and
cheese making.
In the year 1900 we hear Of the great CO.
operative cheese made in Cheshire Mass..
under the auspices of Elder John Leland
He induced every family in the parish, aud
those in the country about, that owned a
cow to contribute the milk produced on a
certain day that 1t might be massed together
and made into a cheese, as a present to
President Jefferson. This cheese, when
cured, weighed 1900 pounds, and Its delivery