Connecticut western news., 1900-03-01
Pure and Wholesome.
What All Milk should He and Hsv to Make It 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 ly put up for the business for which
 you want her, says B. c. Mitchell in
 The National Stockman. With an un healthy COW you cannot expect to get good, wholesome article of milk. butter or cheese. no matter how you may feed. water or caIc for the COW.
 Nor d6es 1t matter how well you may care for the milk or treat 1t you can not make a pure and wholesome arti- cle of food from an unhealthy COW.
 Second, to make pure and wholesome
 milk 1t is important to have pure, un- adulterated food and pure water for the COW, for it Is one of the impossibili-
 ties to make a pure and wholesome
 milk out of impure food and water. as they do not undergo any manner of purification after they are taken into
 the stomach until they are converted
 into milk. As milk is'a secretion and
 not circulation. consequently the
 milk in a great measure. if not alto
 gether. partakes of the nature of the
 food and water.
 Third is cleanliness. With q dirty
 COW and a dirty. badly lighted and ill
 ventilated stable you need not expect
 to get a pure and wholesome article of
 milk. l don't care how well you may feed and water your COW or how good a COW you may have 1t is an impossible thing 10 get a 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 1t you cannot hayc q good, healthy COW, and you cannot have good, wholesome milk.
 Fourth are the aeration and cooling of
 the milk. The aeration of the milk on
 the farm ny a comparatively new ma
 chine especially adapted to the work
 Is new invention in American dairy ing. I wish to say right here that every good, live, wide awake, pro gressive farmer who wishes to keep himself in the front ranks If produc- ing good, wholesome milk will not be without a milk aerator and cooler. l | 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 as when 1t 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. IL will leave the milk inodorous and agreeable to the taste. Milk deal CTS have discovered this, finding their | customers appreciating the change of | the flavor and general improvement in | the condition of the milk. Milk so | treated is vastly more healthful and di- | gestible by 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 again 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 he done at the farm. There are many kinds of milk aerators and cool. CTS manufactured, and they are so cheap they are within the reach of any ordinary dairyman.
 | Milk secreted in the lacteal glands
 of the female mammalia more than | any other secretion is influenced by nervous conditions. X mothers bosom | will fill with milk at the thought of 1 her child. The whole character of milk
 is oftentimes changed and even poison. ed by fit of i'll temper and the infant | thrown into convulsions which in some
 instances prove fatal. It Is an exceed
 lngly delicate and changeable Suid
 containing as it does all of the plastic
 clements necessary for the construc | ton of the various tissues of the body | yet when carelessly treated 1t is liable
 to undergo certain subtle chemical
 changes. in consequence of which from
 being one of the most wholesome oi
 foods it becomes a deadly poison. l When you consider the ignorance ant criminal indifference often practiced il
 locating buildings so as to pollute h.
 drainage the water supply, is it any | wonder that cows and the milk whicl they furnish should become media fol | | widespread diffusion of diseases?