The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-03-12
DIARIES SHOULD
BE INSPECTED
Various Practical Suggestions
Looking to a Purer Dairy
Service and Supply.

| Asked Tor MS OPINION ABOUT Hawaii
an milk and the legislation it needs,
leading farmer and stockraiser of the
Kalihi district, who declines to have
his name mentioned, said:
Our dairy business is one of our most
profitable and most neglected of our
small industries here in Hawaii. We
can have fodder all the year round,
while in the East they have it but
few months.
1t will surprise anyone who carries
on rapid succession of planting sor-
ghum to see how much desirable fod-
der can be obtained from small area
of land.
We notice with pleasure small sor-
ghum patch off King street, Kalihi
planted by Judge w OK. This patch
lis less than one-half acre, produces six
crops per annum (volunteer and plant
ling) say two tons Of green, well-seeded
sorghum to crop, or thirty tons per
annum, or sixty tons per acre. Of
course the land is fortified and well
irrigated.
Our Board of Health is now doing all
the public, but the board has the cart
before the horse and does not take any
pains to find out much in relation to
the dairy the milk comes from. The
milk may be charged with typhoid fever
and other filthy germs for aught they
know.
It should be recommended to our
present Legislature to frame law, as
of
of milk, that all milkmen licensed by
the Board of Health should be obliged
to report the quantity of milk they
isupply and whence it is obtained; also
that physicians in their certificates of
death of children under two years Of
iage from certain specified diseases.
Ishould state what milkman has sup
piled the family or child. An inspector
could then be sent to examine the cows
from which the supply was obtained to
see whether any disease was prevalent
among them. Increased attention to
the source from which the milk is taken
has become necessary, since it is found
that cattle suffering from tuberculosis
or consumption may transmit the dis
ease to human beings.
| In many places milkmen are required,
on application for a license to sell milk,
to file a statement of details of their
business. in which they give their ex-
act location, the quantity of land. the
number of animals, the quantity of
.Imilk, the nature of the feed, the num-
iber of persons employed, the real own
ership, etc. Then an officer, a veterin-
arian, visits the dairy, examines the
animals, feed, water and surround
Iings, and not until favorable report
lis had from him can the milkman even
offer his milk for sale.
| We know it to be fact that a pail
OF milk standing ten minutes where It
will take the scent of a strong smelling
stable or any other odor Will get
faint that will not leave it. A few
Ipuffs from pipe or cigar will scent all
the milk in a room, and a smoking lamp
will do the same. Many persons are
not aware of the extreme delicacy of
milk or the Importance of giving it
particular attention. Milk vessels
should never be used more than once
without first washing them thoroughly
with strong, clean soapsuds and brush
and then rinsing and scalding them in
boiling water and drying them in the
sun.
Milk as human food is sadly unde-
Iveloped by our native Hawaiians. DR..
st. d. G.. Walters would have it dis
tinctly understood that the mortality
among children which carries off one
fifth of all who are born before they
have completed their first year, is not
as we have been taught at funerals,
the work of Divine Providence, but
mainly the result of ignorance.
The terrible typhoid epidemic in Oak
land a short time ago is a solemn
warning to the people of this city.
Life is held very cheaply when con-
Isumers will not take the trouble to as
lcertain whether the milk they give their
children will sustain life or not
Many of our prominent and wealthy
parents Il am sadly disguised of hear
ing from our press about our best and
prominent people) expend thousands of
dollars on their horses and dogs to OBJ
tain the best blood, and yet feed their
own children with milk that a calf
could not be raised on.
To persons coming from older and
better regulated communities it seems
remarkable that in this city there has
been no supervision of the diaries on
milk production, and in the absence of
Ioffictal supervision it is difficult for the
average consumer to ascertain which is
bad and which is good milk that is of
fered for sale
There is no calling that requires more
stamina or integrity of purpose in es-
Gaping from the temptation that hour
ly besets the milkman. He has a tele-
phone message from Mrs. So-and-So to
supply her with cream for her tea par
ty, perhaps, which he can only take
from his customers milk, or an extra
gallon of milk, when he can only do it
by watering.
First class diaries cannot compete
In prices with milk from the Japanese,
Chlnese and other slums. No more
than the Hawaiian hotel can compete
with CHINA restaurants in prices, and
the housekeeper who is saving fifty
cents per month on a quart daily should
not be surprised in having her medical