The San Francisco call., 1896-03-10
monthly report of the dairies and dairy
products will be illustrated

monthly report of the dairies and dairy
products will be illustrated
Long ago, and in Arcadian regions,
there waAas poetic being known as the
miikmaii There were also fairies and
witches, and in other places than Arcadia
there were hobgoblins and giants. and
even prize-fghters.
But all these have passed away. ''The
fairies have fed, little Mabel as the poet
saws. and the milkmaidens have also van
ished Instead of the sweet young crea-
ture who lost good matrimonial oppor-
tunity by declaring that she had no other
fortune than that bestowed by nature,
the world of to-day sees the muscular and
profane hired man.
Poets do not go in search of the hired
man on the milk ranch. They leave him
to Mr.. Dockery.
plain, practical, unromantic thing is
the dairy of the present time, place full
of trials and tribulations, if not of mi
crobes. The dairyman has no Joy in life,
and as he watches his herds and farm
hands standing idly in the barnyard and
chewing away, he signs in the language Of
Byron:
milk and water!
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He doesn't always say Just that, how
ever, for occasionally he addresses the i'm
ported employees, apostrophizes an obsti-
nate half breed Jersey cow or lndulges in
g rhetorical diversion on Mr.. Dockery,
boards of health, bulletin boards and
things in general.
The woes of men who own cows began
with the discovery of the tuberculosis
eerms-in the milk. People who had
been uncomplaining customers all their
lives then began to clamor for less germs
and more milk. Typhoid fever was also
found using the milkman's cart to get
about, and it became fashionable for cities
to employ milk inspectors. At length,
San Francisco adopted the prevalent Gus
tom and Mr. Dockery began his famous
crusade.
1t is well known that if a man smokes
tobacco while milking a cow, the odor Of
the tobacco may be detected in the milk
upon delivery to the city consumers-eyen
several days after the use of the tobacco.
That has been discovered since the milk
maids went away. Milk becomes tainted
as readily as clergyman's reputation,
however slight the cause, and SO the
health off GERS insist that the food liquid
should be carefully guarded against con-
tamination.
Mr.. Dockery and DR.. Greedy go out
among the ranches in the performance OF
their duties. Tney order improvements in
sanitary conditions, and they have sug-
gested. here and there, that an Invalid COW
should be given a chance to retire and die.
Naturally a cow likes to appear neat.
In its wild state, too, it prefers to avoid
tuberculosis as much as possible, and 1t
has never been known to volun tarily pro-
duce adnlterated milk. All the evils con-
nected with the milk business find their
oriqin not in the COW but in the owner OF
the COW.
So Mr.. Dockery has bought an outfit to
take pictures of the dairies, and II DAIRY
men refuse to comply with the suggestious
for sanitary improvements the patrons
will have an opportunity to see Just now
things look at the homes OF the heros.
This is the most advanced step thae mas
been taken py milk inspectors anywhere,
and it is believed that Mr.. Dockery VIII
not rest until he has brought the cathode
ray to bear on his milk investigations.
Mr.. Dockery and the inspectors on the
eastern shore of the bay have become en-
gagged in a sort of gentle rivalry IN con-
nection with their duties, and the mix
men see no way of checking the enthusl-
asm.
DR.. F. L. Pierce, the veterinary surgeon
in charge OF the Oakland work, says that
notwithstanding AIameda's excellent sys-
em and san Francisco's vigorous warfare,