The weekly Thibodaux sentinel. [volume] (Thibodaux, La.) 1898-1905, 1903-09-12
Letter From Hon. Sidney
Story.
Ne9 Orleans, Sept 4, 1903.

NeU Orleans, Sept 4, 1903.
- h Lancaster, Sec1y. Lafourrhe
Roepessive Usna. ThIbodaux. LA
Dne Sri read With considerable
t91egosf yuar interview in todays
17n8 Deoocrat and your sugyes-
tsos q takea up bv the farmers of
yo. seeaioa. as we'll ss BY the farmers
1osnfed % other Roads leading into
NeU Orleans, will do more towards
setting in an era OF prosperity for the
Agricultural Districts, thsn anything
else and The tune 10 fast approaching
vhea New Orleans must get her milk
sapply ffom the country d,stricts. just
- does Nev Yosk. ChicagoA s. Loais.
aDd n fact every Other mp 20 dste snd
Progressive Municipality in Amerira
- Yell - of Europe. I had occasion
10 lDhk into this matter of milk sup
ply fotcries, having during my term
Of Office in New Orl.ans, fathered .
Milk Ordnance which is DOW q law
and if rightly enforced by our local
authorities. would drive every dairy
outside the corporate limits of our
city, into the nearby rural districts
where they belong. The existence Of
Diaries, like those Of New Orleans,
located ou our drainage canals, and
conducted as they are without any
regard to science, cleanliness ar sani-
tary regulations, is q standing menace
to the health Of q community. The
Cows are cooped up in i'll ventilated
stables, the animals themselves are
inferior IN breei, III fed and poorly
treated, the methods in vogue iu the
majority Of these SO called Dairies,
are primiten, unsanitary, not to say
criminal by virtue Of the vile adulter-
atoms prsctis-d BY the unscrupulous
| can venture the statement that ia
my opinion, which is horne out by
facts, this City has probably the worst
milk supply Of any lsrge city in the
country. This is evidenced by the
fact that there is more condensed
milk used in New Orleans per capits,
than in any other city in the countr =.
The fresh supply Of milk, is 20 abom
Unable, that it drives people to the
use Of condensed milk. Milk Is food
consumed BY everybody. Is absolute
iy necessary a an article of diet
When pure and wholesome, it is the
best kind Of food, when impure the
most deletcrious to health. Even -
| 1t u New Orleans consumes today m
axarA2e q thirty thosaeDd mllqns.A .Al
fresh milk daily. II 6e sapp!y cams
from the country aod was pure and
wholesome, the consumption would
be doubled. Why shouldn't New
Orleans boast Of as good q milk sup
ply as New York, Chicago or St
Louis. There Is no reason for bel
not being able to do so, if the farmers
along the line of the Roads running
INTO New Orleans, would only SEIZE
the opportunity presented them Of
going into the business. New Yorf
receives every day by rail some 25(
thousand gallons Of milk. Some ol
it coming some 200 miles distan'
Chicogo, S. Louis aud other centers
receive daily OF morning and after
noon trains, thousands of gallons Of
milk which IS distributed to the con-
sumers- The old theory that ha:
prevailed IN this city that milk mus
be delivered and consumed as soon q:
drawn from the cows udder has Ions
since been proven = falacy. Chicago
New York, St. Louis and in fact al
cities receiving their daily supply o
milk from the country, don. sell ,
single gallon, unless it is from "a L
43 hours old. Mix can be KEEP
sweet 4S hours Il necessary, provides
| it comes from healthy COWS and it
handled IN > clean and scientific man
uer. The argument, therefore tha
New Orleans couldn't depend upon
country milk supply, because tb
climate is against it and the mill
would sour before reaching the city
falls to the ground. In fact the sew
eral thousand gallons of milk, whic
reach New Orleans over The 1liinO;
Central R. R. every day is a reputa
ton Of this houry headed argumen
some ten years ago, not . gallon Q
milk came into New Orleans from th
Ioountry. In 1898, after visiting Ii
Chicago Exposition and the dair
Iexhibits, the notson struck me tbs
q milk supply for New Orleans sue
IS Chicogo enjoyed would be th
thing. On my return TO New OrIear
l ,naugurated > moment lOoking to
wa,ds the encouragement Of mil
shipments along the Illinois Centr:
RR / made several addresses
the farmers, at points like Harmon
La and the result Was thai Con-
pany Was soon organized known
the Farmers Consolidated Dairy CO
with depot in this city at the corn
of Ct Charles and Ersto streets. ]
make q long story short, in less tha
so days this depot wss r,ceiving Z, 81
gallons of milk per day. The mi
shipped into New Orleans by farm"
located on the Illinois Central K