The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-05-02
THE EVENING TIMES GRAND FORKS, N. ..

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accessible to newspaper men within
city limits. I read half q dozen bulle-
tins and reports of the United States
department of agriculture, and there
found, in more scientific phraseology,
powerful confirmation of my own I'M
sophisticated inference that milk is
the most important type of human
food. No wonder that babies can thrive
on nothing else, and that healthy
adults never outgr0w the need for
milk, If, as one high authority informs
me, milk contains all the materials
for building flesh, bone and muscle in !.
the most easily digestible form of all
known foods for the normal stomach.
l learned wonderful facts about pro-
teins" and "albumins" from the ex-
perts employed by the government and
the leading agricultural states Of the
union, and marveled at the strictness
of the rules which they recommend
for the feeding and general care of
cows, and then l went down town and
asked President William J. Rogers of
the Borden company. to show me what
they were doing. After repeated re-
quests made in person and by tele-
phone, he reluctantly promised to aid
me in securing practical information
from a working standpoint, and fin
ally granted permission for an inspec-
tion on my part of any of the various
diaries and plants operated by them
in the preparation of milk in its varied
forms, including bottled milk, cream,
and buttermilk for city supply, con-
densed milk (sweetened and unsweet-
ened,) and evaporated cream in cans,
and matted milk in glass jars These
requests, seldom, If ever, granted now
adays, were complied with only when
it was understood that my motive was
to CLEAN wholesome information rela
tive to wholesome food and for the
benefit and enlightment of such unen-
lightened members of the human fami-
ly as might read or learn of it after
publication.
The first surprise in this quarter was
that at which l have already limited
The company-that largest of its kind
in the world-was not waiting for in
structions or recommendations from
Washington on the care of cows; on
the contrary, it had been leading the
way for our legislators and admins
traitors in this direction ever since its
beginnings before the civil war l
was shown form of contract with the
farmers who supply them with their
fresh milk in scores of rural districts
all over this country, one that has been
substantially the same, and strictly ad-
hered to, ever since the time of their
founder. Without disrespect to Wash
ington. l should say that they have for
many. years been instructors of the
Department of Agriculture. Not that
the Washington or state standards
even yet quite equals theirs in sever
ity. In answer to possible quiries on
that head, would point to this clause
in the farmers contract previously re-
ferred to-: "Not to feed the cows on
ensilage." A recent Washington bulle-
tin declares ensilage (the partially
fermented product of the silo system
of storing fresh fodder) to be perfect
ly sound and wholesome food for cattle;
the Borden people differ with scienti-
f1c authorities in this respect based
on their knowledge of the subject, and
therefore eliminate from their supply ,
ensilage-fed milk. Perhaps here, too,
the various authorities will follow the
New York lead, as they have in regard
to the details of lighting, venetilating,
heating and cleaning of cow stables.
1t was satisfactory result of the
, inquisitive frame of mind which
chance remark of companion on the
81" train had aroused in me, that It
: lead me to the great concerns, begin
ming with the model plant located at
Gail Borden's birthplace. was cour-
teously received by superintendent
and managers. l had almost said that
the management threw everything
open to my inspection, but regard
for strict accuracy checks me at that
point; there are processes, or i'm
provements in the details of processes
which they wisely, perhaps, refrained
from explaining to greenhorn.
visited diaries, stables and milk-hous-
es, and noted the care with which the
COWS were cared for and fed on the
farms and was also shown the receiv-
ing-room, the we'll rooms, the bottling-
rooms, the cooling rooms, and the seal
ing-rooms at several points, and had
every opportunity of noting the almost
inconceivable care with which the del
icate fluid is guarded from every posi-
BILE tint, not only of actual dirt or
dust, but Of atmospheric impurity. No
one must use tobacco or drugs in any
form within these jealQusly guarded
precincts. The thousands of men and
women employed in these institutions