The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-12-12
PEACE RESTORED
HEALTH OFFICER REPORTS
ON B0RDEN'S MILK.
Dairy Conditions Good, Montclair Of
fetal Says, After Three Days
at oxford, N. Y.

Peace has been made apparently between
the Montclair Board of Health and the
Borden Condensed Milk Company, which
supplies about two-thirds of the families II
Montclair. Health Officer Chester II.
Wells, of Montclair, has just returned
from a three-day inspection OF the COM
pany's dairies and says he now feels salts
ned that the supply is safe. A few months
ago the board directed the company 10
with the new sanitary code Dy
having all the COWS from which 1t draws
its supply for Montclair submitted to the
tnberculin test This the company refused
to do and its reasons eventually prevailed
over the board, for the latter body gave
the company six months grace, thus pre-
venting a milk famine there. Mr.. VOLS
says that only one-third OF the cows in
question are tuberculin-tested, but he ap-
pears to think the dairy is properly con-
Quoted. Mr.. Wells said of his trip:
ION my first visit to oxford, N. T.,
some two or three years ago l was very
agreeably surprised. / had expected 70
find, as / think many of our people yet
believe, that a considerable portion OF our
milk came from more or less dilapidate1
COW stables. Quite the reverse was true.
and the conditions today are the same. ]
was particularly Impressed with the gen
eral cleanliness, not only. of the oottlns
but of the diaries and
stables. A visitor for the first time to this
big central plant is strongly impressed
with the thoroughly sanitary methods en-
DiOye0 IN the management OF DOlLillE mllNs
and the perfect cleanliness In and arounu
the buildings. We must admit that after
the Borden Company receives the milk. IL
is handled In a perfectly sanitary manner.
Let us go back for a moment TO the
source of the milk. the dairy cow. Here
we find the cause of the only controversy
II at has arisen between the Borden Com
riny and the Board of Health. Only about
of the cows are tuberculin-testec
They are all, however. subjected to a ply
steal examination. The cattle are not fec
on brewery or distilling grains or on en-
silage, which some people claim affects the
are given the very best of food, such as
hay. clover. meal. bran. etc.
1.-THE stables are whitewashed twice each
year, and are well located. There is large
air space per cow, and the manure Is re-
moved to the fields daily. Near each
stable a dairy house is provided with run
sp' ing water, so that the milk can be
the growth of any bacteria that 1t con-
tains. 1t is we'll known that bacteria
very rapidly in milk that Is kept
at a temperature higher than so degrees
Fahrenheit.
MANY of the stables have individual
watering-troughs for the cows. In all tho
the COWS stand back to back: This
having the cows head to head together at
the centre of the barn. There is a %venti-
lating system in many of the stables, to
insure fresh air and get rid of the smells
found In barns"
1t is believed that the Borden Company
be allowed to continue the supply oi
milk to the residents of Montclair. How
to live up to the tuberculin test will take
This Is not known.