The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1907-08-23

a public benefaction!
Don't use store milk for babies"
That Is the earnest advice Of Milk In
spector Jordan Of this city. In the hot
summer months, when the infant NOR
tality Is highest, IL is warning OF the
utmost significance.
And why not store milk? Simply be-
cause it is not so fresh as that which
can be obtained from milkmen 1t has
been kept longer in storage, very fire.
quently at a higher temperature than
so degrees Fahrenheit, which is the
maximum temperature for keeping
milk cool. Hence, the milk has devel-
oped bacteria beyond the maximum Of
the health regulations. Milk which
contains more than 100000 bacteria per
cubic centimetre or which has tenn
perature higher than 80 degrees Fab
renheit Is prohibited for sale in the
city OF Boston. For IL has been proved
that milk which stood for nine hours In
a temperature Of 50 degrees Fahrenheit
had 100000 bacteria, and milk stand
Ing III the same 30 nun
had developed S5,000,000.
Yet Boston Is fortunate in its milk
supply. Many experts have pronounced
il TO be as pure as the supply of any
city in the world.
If some Of the patrons OF the Bos-
ton elevated street car company's lines
that radiate from the Clarendon Hill
car-barns, out In Somerville, could see
many OF the motormen and conductors
who look so natty in spick and span
uniforms, when they are off duty,
they would find them in overalls and
wearing big-brimmed straws, leading
the simple life and tilling the soil.
They are all farmers" during their
leisure hours, owing 10 the good graces
of the company, which loaned the use
OF fully five acres Of fertile soil close
ly adjoining the huge car-barns and
covering the westerly slope of the hill
ending at Alewife brook
When spring arrived those who ac-
cepted the privilege extended by the
company engaged the services of a
man, a pair of horses and plow and
the earth was turned up In burrows.
IL was enriched with fertilizer and as
soon as the weather permitted each
motorman and conductor put in seed
which the planters now find to be well
grown.
The acres under tiIape wore divided
into lots and each farmer" assumed
proprietorshin of a norticular lot To-
day potatoes are fourishin,g. sweet corn
is two feet above the ground beets are
looking prosperous. cabbages are shap-
inc into fine heads. diminutive cucum-
bers are peeping from beneath their
vines. beans are in the pods and al
ready many "messes" of peas have
been gathered.
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