Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1899-06-01
WORMS
Are Fed to the Cattle
In Malt.
This Results In an Epidemic OF
. Cholera Infantum.
WORMS

COVENTRY. May 70.
EDITOR DEMOCRAT:
The heated term is drawing near.
The annual season OF epidemics is at
hand. allude more particularly to
complaints peculiar to children, es-
pecially to infants. The prevalence
and fatally of cholera infantum and
kindred diseases of children have so
accustomed our people to it that We
regard it, as we regard interest-bear-
ing bonds, necessary evil. l do not
say that every parent has it in their
power TO protect their little ones
from the common enemy. But 1 do
say that the annual loss can be
greatly lessened by giving more at
tention to what we eat and drink. l
am not speaking of coffee made of clay
and chicory, of the hundreds of the
necessaries of life, which our former
State Food Commissioner NcNeal,
declared, to be largely adulterated
and injurious to health. [ wish to
speak of an article Of diet which is
placed on the bill of fare of the little
one more frequently than any other,
that is milk. l know a little bit
about milk. / sold it on the streets
of Akron for ten years. l run
dairy fourteen years. 1 understand
a few ''tricks of the trade" 1 was
one of the very few who fed our
cows honest food grown on the farm,
re-enforced by honest mill feed (that
was before millers .doped their mill
feed), and l was one who had to quit
the business because | would not
feed brewery malt at two
dollars load. This Malt"
produces a thin, watery, insipid,
blue, creamless milk. Why shouldn't
it? 1t was barley once, but it has
been ground, steamed, bleached,
washed and squeezed until every
particle of good has been extracted
and tranformed into lager beer. Then
the offal is shoveled out of window
where crowd of milkmen are impa-
tiently waiting. A two-horse wagon
load for two dollars. A dairyman
with from u to 20 COWS will feed from
three to four loads week. He hauls
it only as fast as he feeds it, for in
hot weather epidemic weather) it
will not keep but few hours with
out getting wormy. L have seen
heaps of it literally swarm1ng
with maggots. A shovel full will
run away in a few minutes.
1t is a reptile" about three-eighths
of an inch in length, nearly white,
and so full of beer that when pricked |
with pin it will instantly collapse.
When in its own room it is quite
difficult to see. This malt stuff |
shoveled into the manger and |
sprinkled with bran is eaten with a
relish, after the COW has been starved |
to it, but not before. Dairymen who
to climb the golden stairs
without stubbing toe, have got rich
feeding this stuff. And they will |
continue feeding it if not prohibited |
by law. Many people demand this
milk because it is cheap, re-
gardless of epidemics. But
those who do not want it should
have some safeguard, some as
surance that they were giving their
little ones, or themselves good milk.
This can be done by compelling
milkmen to label their milk, that is,
state under oath with penalty attach
ed, whether they feed ''malt" or not,
print this statement ON cards and
post in their wagons. The same
principle is employed in pro-
tecting our people in the use of
'oleo" butter. Let those have it
who want it, but let us know what it
is before we buy. We can then take
our choice. Yours etc.,