New-York tribune., 1905-02-14
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR.
CONDITIONS OF MILK PRODUCTION.
Orange County Dairiss Are, in the Main,
Conducted on Sanitary Principles

To the Editor Of The Tribune
Sir: In your issue of January Is find an art.cis
entitled Disease Germs in Your Mir" with pho
toSraphs OF stables and unsantary conditions under
which such milk is produced. Doubtless such con-
diticus do exist. and I dare say can be found IN
the suburbs Of your great city. in what are known
swiu milk stables But when you say the aver
age dairy barn of the State OF NewYork is seldom
or never swept. cobwebs and dust are loaded ca
every beam. ard poultry allowed TO roost on
tho stanchons to which the COWS are tied. and then
say this Is an average the surroundings OF dairy
farms Of the State. say you are Tar from thu
truth
The milk territory of this State vast
area with some OF which I not at all
quainted But when you include Orange County
beg leave 10 differ with you. You viii find IN
specting the dairy barns OF Orange County that
the stable erooms an Indispensable article. as
much 50 as the hay fork. ana are used at least
twice every day. That nine OF of tho
stables are thoroughly whitewashed and kept in a
sanitary condition: that the are provided with
an abundance of pure running spring water. and
that every attention is given their comfort and
health Cows and poultry do not thrive IN th.
same atmosphere. and the dairyman has learned
that It IS too expensive TO invest SO SO IN
dairy COW to convert into henroost- And ths
will apply to the feed his cows consume.
Do you suppose the Alexander Campbell MIX
Company or the Borden company and a soor. OF
other first class companies located in this vicinity.
Sti iS9eJLoTs are aiert m the exercise 9I their
anu 90 hSpect the premises ana dalree oc
their patrons would stake their regulations
test our milk While II - VI the nrorsrtV ~ 4h
producer. and venture o say that not In
a thousand has been condemned ia the last two
enough TO admit that some of the enbalninE and
aduiIeraqng Of milk is done at the creaneriss.
multiply with age at the OF 40 per cent from
temperature of i5 degrees Now Would ss MAJ
Is the age OF the sreater part Of your milk when
% WHERE the the milk towing 70 the distance) Is kept
II delivery.
would require at least forty-eight hours to elapss
consumer con Is i wonder that eLnbaliing fluids
large portion OF the mix eonsursed 81 s9 is Ss
York City can be supplied 10 the consumer at ten
over tventy-four at trIe advsncs in cost sf7 whs
fbe % diI AT m the rapldty with which
this not decidedly preferable?
consumption over twelve hours old. and the same
less gr the temperature TO which It has been sub
We agree with the Board OF Health that all r-,rx
should be reduced 20 temperature Of 80 degrses
eoiatey I'm. tt aIIer being drawn from the COW aud
sumer; that all milking should be done in ceanIy
fed to the cows: that all milk be sold on its merits
s. S SrgtIos 800 outter tat age bacteria. etc and that
will compensate him for his labor and Investment
quart. with an occasional traction added or De-
Quoted prevails. without regard TO age. quality,
ducer afford 10 make expenditure for Ice labor etc,
in value with age and hen tf po1,s o t rss
city or New York insist that milk shall be sold
m IT'S boundaries thtrtv-six hours old. thsr.
tnis tax OF bacteria etc. Will cease.
Monroe, " T.. Feb. Il 1916. A W ROE
The writer neglected 20 mention the fact thas
the statements. the average dairy barn OF the
State OF New-Yorb is seldom or never swept-
and 'cobwebs and dust are loaded on every
beam and poultry are allowed 20 roost on the
stanchions 70 which the COWS tied" are nos
the direct and unsupported statements OF Tho
Tribune. but we're made by well known official
OF the New-York State Dairymen's Association.
who has travelled through every dairy county
/ in our State" This the article OF January Is
plainly indicates That article did not contain
any mention of a particular county in which
the conditions were especially good or especially
bad Orange County is probably as free from
unsanitaTy dairies any in the neighborhood
OF New-York- As the writer Of the letter ad-
nlits. however, conditions are far from being
what they ought 10 BE-