The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1899-12-22
Pure and Wholesome.
What All Milk Should BE and
How to Make 1t So.

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To produce pure and wholesome milk
the first thing to be done is to procure
a good healthy cow, one that is right
~ put up for the business for which
you want her, says B. c.. Mitchell in
The National 81 man. With an un-
healthy cow you cannot expect to get
a good, wholesome article of milk,
butter or cheese, no matter how you
may feed, water or care for the cow.
Nor does it matter how we'll you may
care for the milk or treat it you can
not make pure and wholesome arti
Gle of food from an unhealthy COW.
Second, to make pure and wholesome
milk it is important to have pure, I'M
adulterated food and pure water for
the COW, for it is one of the impossible
ties to make a pure and wholesome
milk out of impure food and water, as
they do not undergo any manner of
publication after they are taken into
the stomach until they are converted
into milk. AS milk is a secretion and
not a circulation, consequently the
gether, partakes of the nature Of the
food and water.
Third is cleanliness. With a dirty
COW and q dirty, badly lighted and i'll
ventilated stable you need not expect
to get pure and wholesome article Of
milk. l don't care how well you may
feed and water your cow or how good
q COW you may have it is an impossible
thing to get q good, healthy life or
growth of either animal or vegetable
matter without good light and sun
shine and plenty of pure air to breathe,
and without it you cannot have a good.
healthy COW, and you cannot have
good, wholesome milk.
Fourth are the aeratiOn and cooling Of
the millE. The aeratiOn of the milk on
the farm by a comparatively new ma
chine especially adapted to the work
is q new invention in American dairy
ing. [ wish to say right here that
every good. live, wide awake pro-
gressive farmer who wishes to keep
himself in the front ranks of produc-
ing good, wholesome milk will not be
without a milk aeratOr and cooler |
know it is extremely difficult to con-
vince the ordinary dairyman that it is
to his interest to use an aeratOr and
cooler without an appeal to direct ex-
pertinent.
Milk is never in so good a condition
for treatment IS when it is warm and
fresh from the COW. An aeratOr and
cooler applied at this time will remove
all animal Odors and arrest all germs
Of fermentation, putrefaction and de-
cay. 1t will leave the milk inOdorous
and agreeable to the taste. Milk deal
ers have discovered this, finding their
customers approaching the change of
the flavor and general Improvement in
the condition of the milk. Milk so
treated is vastly more healthful and di-
gestible 10y delicate stOmachs and by
children and will keep nearly two days
longer than milk not so treated.
Every milk dealer knows well the
misery of caring for milk that has not
been properly treated at the farm. The
careful cheesemaker who has studied
to produce fine goods tells us over and
over 3gain that he cannot by any proc
ess Of factory manipulation entirely
remedy any defective milk at the fac
tory. All milk dealers know that this
must be done at the farm. There are
many kinds of milk aerators and cool
ers manufactured, and they are so
cheap they are within the reach of any
ordinary dairyman.
Milk secreted in the Tactical glands
of the female mammala more than
any other secretion is influenced by
nervous conditions. A mothers bosom
will fill with milk at the thought of
her child. The whole character of milk
is Oftentimes changed and even poison
ed by Il fit of i'll temper and the infant
thrown into commissions which in some
instances prove fatal. It is an exceed
ingly delicate and changeable fluid,
containing as it does all of the plastic
elements necessary for the c0nstruc-
ton of the various tissues of the body,
yet when carelessly treated it is liable
to undergo certain subtle chemical
changes in consequence Of which from
being one of the most wholesome of
foods it becomes a deadly poison.
When you consider the ignorance and
criminal Indifference often practiced in
locating buildings so as to pollute by
drainage the water supply, is it any
wonder that COWS and the milk which
they furnish should become media for
a widespread diffusion of diseases?