The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1903-10-16
Holstein-Friesian Milk for Infants and
Invalids

To The EDITOR:
An excerpt from Chicago daily of
late date Record Herald) containing a
most unjust structure on Holstein- Fries
ian CATTLE has just been handed me; and,
your columns for brief reply. The ex-
and the pertinent part of it is as follows:
THE Holstein COW was dragged into
the pure milk campaign yesterday. Chief
clared the milk from Holsteins lacking
in nourishment. The Holsteins must
CO. he said. The babies of Chicago de-
mand it. The trouble with Holsteins is
that they have big quantity OF milk,
Farmers should have Jerseys, Ayrshires
or Durhams'
While Mr. Grady may be perfectly ia
miliar with Chicago ward politics, nave
serious doubts as to his familiarity with
dairy cattle; and | am sure that when
it comes to feeding babies, man who
recommends a Jersey cow-a COW giving
small quantities of milk very much rich
err in fat than the milk of the human
mother, milk so rich that it would in
what he is talking about. If Il man were
to choose foster mother to nurse his
child, he would choose strong, healthy
woman, with plenty of vitality. If he
must u.s. the cow as foster mother, and
can select himself, he will choose a
strong, healthy, vigorous COW, of that
position to the milk of the human
mother.
The average composition of thousands
of anal, ses of human milk shows less
than 3 per cent. fat, and per cent. of
solids not fat. The average analysis Of
cows milk the world over, COWS with
Jersey blood being excepted, is little
above 80 per cent fat, and 9.5 per cent.
solids not fat During the past two
years alone, over 1900 Holstein Friesian
cows of all ages have been officially
tested for period of at least one week
by the various State Experiment Sta
tons; and, with every milking thus
tested, the average per cent. OF fat for all
the milk taken in bulk is found to be "a
per cent.
1t is thus seen that while the milk of
the Holstein- Friesian cow exceeds the
milk of the human mother considerably
enough to be Injurious to the children.
Under the auspices of the Physicians
and Surgeons Association of Chicago,
ILL.,, large dairy for the production of
certified milk for infants and invalids,
the milk selling at wholesale for several
times the price of common milk, and the
COWS used are almost entirely of Hol-
-. nh r
Chicago have learned that there is such
milk shows this more than others, and
that Holstein- Friesian milk shows it
most of all.
Carlyle of the Wisconsin Agricultural
College, said: The point 1 wish to
make here is that there is such a thing
as vitality in milk, and that it is of equal,
if not greater, Importance than its chem
supply Of cities; and there can be no
question but that the vitality of milk is
closely associated with the vitality Of the
COWS, such as the Holstein Friesians and
milking Shorthorns and some few fami-
lies of the jersey and Guernsey breeds,
are dHllDdlS tuoC olO OouHo W OC O.
CURED for this purpose. The physicians
recognize the Importance OF strong
vital temperament in the human mother,
and do not see why it should not ap-
ply with equal force to cows"
The city milk dealer will always assert
that the farmer is at fault in the milk
supplied, and is always demanding milk
richer in butter fat. He wishes this, not
that he may retail it as it comes in, but
that he may skim off part Of the cream
to sell as cream, and yet have fat enough
left in the milk to pass inspection. The
farmers and dairymen prefer Holstein-
Friesian COWS because they are large,
healthy and vigorous, and give large
quantities of most excellent milk, which
averages much above the average re-
CURED: and II they can only get it in
pure condition. and without watering or
skimming. all city mothers will find in
Holstein- Friesian milk health, strength
and vitality for the little ones.
MALCOLM II. GARDNER,
Darien, Wisconsin.