The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1900-10-02

Dairy Totes.
The feeding of whole corn TO calves
Is recommended by a good many dairy
men that have tried 1t. When skim
milk is fed something will be useful
to balance it up and increase the ele-
ments of energy and heat. Calves util-
lze whole corn more fully than do
COWS. Before they are a year old their
digestive habits are such that none OF
the corn is passed whole. But while
this Is true, it is not advisable to feed
corn without limit. In fact too large
quantities Of corn might destroy the
possibilities of the future cow, by
creating a tendency to lay on fat.
Some are now suggesting that the
best way to control the sale Of oleo-
margarine is to compel the manufact-
urers and retailers of it to put it up in
one and two-pound packages. This is
In line with the suggestion that MI.
]. H. Monrad has often made that oleo-
margarine be sold in packages of GER
tain shape, as oval, as is done now in
some foreign countries. Either of
these methods might prove effective,
but 1t Is barely possible that the courts
would declare them unconstitutional.
1t must be remembered that the for
eign countries that have such laws
are not governed by constitutions like
the ones under which we live, and be-
cause a law is constitutional in Eu-
rope is no sign that it would be equally
SO here.
The more preservatives are investi-
gated the more Objectionable they are
found. In England, as well as in
America, they are being looked after.
From things that have come to light,
it cannot be doubted that during the
last few years especially the use of
personalities in milk, cream and other
o products has caused a very large
amount of sickness and many deaths,
especially among invalids and chill
dren. Last year the British parlia-
ment appointed a committee to in
vestigate the use of p~reservatives in
food. Its Investigations have brought
to light a good many things of inter
est. One distinguished physician said
that he had been experimenting with
boric acid on himself and friends. In
small quantities the kidneys could dis
pose of it, but it had a tendency to ac-
cumulate. He used it in larger guam
titles on himself and it had the effect
of causing a loss of appetite and lassi-
tude. 1t should never be used in milk,
as it especially affects the digestive
powers of weak children and babies.
DR.. Voelcker, consulting chemist to the
Royal Agricultural Society Of Eng
land said that boric acid should not
be used in milk and cream. Dr.. Wal
ford, health officer of Cardiff, said that
boric acid is injurious in the quantities
in which it is used in milk. Dr.. Hill.
health officer of Birmingham, said
that the people that put boric acid in
milk know nothing of its medicinal
properties. 1t is a drug and requires
regulation. The use OF boric acid is
being discarded and a more dangerous
chemical put in it's place-formalde-
hyde. This latter hardens the album
inous matter in the food. DIR. Gamer
on, health officer of Leeds, said that
for some years diarrhoea among chill.
dren had been on the increase in
Leeds, and this was probably due to
the use of chemicals in milk, as some
of these p~reservatives have the prop
erty of inducing such a condition. DR..
Mann, health officer for Manchester,
said that no personalities of any kind
should be permitted in milk. Readers
of the Farmers Review will remember
that boric acid is one of the least OBJ
jectionable preservatives. In England
it has been found that several more in
furious drugs are being employed. In
vestigations further showed that no
matter how harmful the preservative
might be, prosecutions are practically
impossible under any law that pro-
hibited injurious drugs, as the manu-
facturers could always find some ply
stefan that would go into court and
say that such drugs are harmless.