New-York tribune., 1907-10-07
SKIM MILK TO RESCUE.
TO AID AGAINST METZ.
It's Introduction Another argument
for More Farm Inspectors.

The fight to insure more thorough inspection os
the milk sold IN New York Will be carried a step
further this afternoon when the executive committee
OF the milk committee of the Association for I'm
in the Organized Charities Building This COMMITTEES
Will support the Mayors milk commission in its at
tempt to Persuade the Board OF Estimate and Ap-
po-tIonment to agree on an increased outlay OF
S350.000 year IN salaries for 125 more milk IN
spectors In the city and country Controller Metz
has opposed the pIan but Of the contentious to
be forth by the milk experts is that the larger
number Of inspectors will be able pass upon skim
milk and that therefore this byprouct OF the dairy
can be added TO New York's food supply
The subjects taken up by the Mayors milk COM
mission have been investigated at length by this
executive committee The secretary OF the. milk
committee. W c. Phillips referred yesterday to the
fact that the Mayors milk commission asked for an
ent number IS TO 40 and increase in the number
of country inspectors from 10 10 115.
AS matters stand" continued Mr.. Phillips. thirty
eght thousand farms in New York state New Jersey,
Connecticut and Pennsylvania are sending milk TO
the New York market The conditions at these
farms should be kept under surveillance. But with
only fifteen milk inspectors IN the country districts
about eleven thousand OF these farms visited
at all. and the others are inspected only once a
year. With 115 country inspectors each farm could
be visited by inspector every six weeks and a
careful record kept OF its hygisnic condition. The
Increase OF city inspectors would insure a proper
inspection OF the milk after It arrived here
Now. Controller Metz has opposed the recon-
rnendation Of the Mayors commission on the score
OF expense-s550 900 more year. He has also
said that while the big milk companies can afford
TO put floors IN their barns and keep their
cows groouned and their cans and bottles properly
cleaned, an insstence on these improvements among
small farmers would result in the small farmer
raising the price Of milk The Controller has IN
sinuated that IL the action OF the Mayors commits
sion were adopted the big milk companies would
hnrr. -.
would suffer OF be Obliged 10 shift the burden to the
consumer
But even granting that some such situation
would result, there is questioning its value IN
insurtng the health OF the citizens. Yet there IA a
way to offset II. pointed cut by the Mayor's
commission, and that Is By permitting the sale OF
skim milk IN New York where at present II Is for
hidden The reason for its exclusion IS that under
the present insufficient inspection it is almost i'm
possible to know from what sort OF stock 1t comes
With increased inspection. however. and BY the
modern means Of taking cream from milk by cen
trifugal separators the skim milk should be "a
pure as any sort. and could be sold. OF course
carefully designated as SUCH
Mr. Philips was reminded that in the country dis
tricts skim milk usually fed to hogs and was
not looked upon as specially nutritious.
That IS a common error he replied. The milk
committee OF our association has gone into the sub
ject carefully It's sale under prop, conditions
wosld be a boon the poor. At present a0Oo0
making OF caSein glue That means SOOOaoO0
quarts year produce $500 900 pounds OF casein.
One pound OF cassin sells for five cents and re-
quires IN its making sixteen quarts OF skim milk
quart OF skim milk IS thus sold for about q
quarter OF a cent The food value OF skim milk
Is great. Our experts have found that five plnts
OF skim milk contain the protein and fuel value
OF pound Of runp steak. that costs IS cents. II
skim milk could be sold IN New York under proper
restrictions It would add to the health and happt-
Of the poor
Mr. Phillips said that stress would bs laid On the
skim milk proposition az the meeting Of the ex-
ecutive committee to-day. since by this means Con-
troller Metz could be shown thai while pure milk
might be increased in price by careful inspec-
tion OF farms. the addition OF skim milk TO ths
city's supply would bring something almost as
good within the reach OF all. The executive com
mittee is made up OF DIT. Lindsay r. williams Dr.
Haven Emerson, DIR. r. c. Freeman. Arthur II.
Harris. Charles Root De Witt j. Seligman and
Stephen G. Williams The Mayors milk commits
sion has as It's chairman Dr. Freeman. who in his
relation to the milk committee OF the association
has been investigating the subject for years The
other members OF the Mayors commission arc Drs.
L. Emmett Holt. A. jacob. Joseph D. Bryant and
T. Mitchell Prudden-