The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1892-11-17
AFTER milk FORCBRS.
The Dairy Commissioner
Investigating the SWil1
Cow Sheds.
BAD CASES In HUDSON.
Innutricious Milk the Product of
Dirt, Lack of Exercise and
Bad Feed.
special to The Jersey city Neys.

NPCNSttts ~ AHO SN'ASy SttS t'NS"
TRENTON. Oct. II, 1s92.-The State au-
thorities have declared war on the swill
cattle stables, from which the supply Of
milk for New York, Newark and Jersey
City is obtained. The State Dairy Com
missioner and Attorney General STOCKTON
are now preparing a plan of action that
will stop the evil. All the deputies have
been making examinations of several
thousand stables where suspicious milk
has been secured and preparations are
being made to prosecute under the food
law of the State.
State Dairy Commissioner Mcclure has,
for over a year. been quietly working on
the question of pure milk. For five years
or more he and his deputies lave made Il
strong fight against adulteration. Their
attention was principally devoted to the
farms, and by a system OF raids at unex-
pected times. they discovered that many
were giving more attention to the pump
than the cow. This led to a number of
prosecutions and brought upwards Of
$10,0 900 in fines to the State Treasury. This
systematic investigation has been Denefi-
cial, and now prosecutions are rare be-
cause violations are.
THE MILK FORCERS.
The Commissioned has or late taken up
the milk ~forcers, men who keep herds of
cattle in badly ventilated stables in and
around large cities, aud who feed their
cattle upon brewery malt and force large
quantities of milk that is at times disease
laden and at most times not nutritious.
For the past three months, his deputies
have been at work all over the State, ex-
amining the cattle, the stables in which
they are kept, the character of water and
FnAI ~fYnV fhnVn md n r r. rnao-f NND,~
there are upwards of a hundred reports
on file that show chat the milk producing
business in the vicinity of Newark and
Jersey City is q profitable Que and one
that needs much investigating.
Prof. Leeds. Prof. Cornwall and Ship
pen Wallace are making an analysis of
the samples Of milk obtained from herds
whose condition was not altogether salts
factory. There are about 1900 of these
sta bles scattered through Hudson and
Essex counties. Last year an investiga-
tion was made and 176 stables visited; A
in Hudson. so in Essex. 5 in Mercer and
Is In Passaic. In these 176 stables were
found 1905 cows. Their condition was
brought to the attention of the United
States Department OF Animal Industry.
The matter was considered so essential to
public health that DIR. W. S.. Devoe of
that department. has co-operated with
the Stare authorities. The inspection
last year had some good results, as about
one-tenth OF the stable owners have
cleaned up, rebuilt aud had some regard
for sanitary arrangements. but there is
still the necessity of an organized effort.
The State has adopted Il plan to test the
laws on the statute book aud secure con-
v~ictions at the expense of the State, 50
that a precedent can be secured under
which the local Boards of Health can
operate. Section 2 of the laws of 1882
gives authority to prosecute for adulter-
alton of milk and for the sale of milk sup
posed to oe impure, obtained from ami
mails fed on distillery waste. usually
called swill, or upon any substance in a
state of putrefacJion or ~rottenuess, or
upon any substance of an unwholesome
nature. Those violating this law are sub
ject to a penalty of $50 for the first offense
and 500 for the second ~offense.
BAD LOCAL CASES.
The use of swill. gathered from the
New York hotels, which was extensively
practised in Hudson and Essex, has been
prevented by the Board of Health, but
the use of brewery grains still continues.
1t is found to be "A milk producer. 1t i'm
pairs the health of the cattle, by the con
slant agitation of its internal organs.
Thy grains are allowed to stand until
they ferment and are then fed to the
cows. Under this pressure the cow only
produces milk for one year, and then it is
sold to the butcher. In the reports made
one case appeared where twelve cows
produced 120 quarts of milk a day; an
other case on Tonnele avenue, Jersey
City where fourteen COWS produced 100
quarts per day. The cows were poor and