The independent., 1907-04-25

tertion to beef production. The two
kinds of business are as distinct as
are the two types of animals, dairy
and beef The largest profits to be
derived are obtained from the best
in each type, and not from a mixture
of the two. We can't all be dairyrnen,
neither can we all be fat stockmen.
but we can improve our stock. In
either and reap larger profits by so
doing.
Some of the scientific men have
tendency, 1t seems to us, to become a
little 'dippy" when taking UP the SUBJ
ject of pure milk supply. The endeavor
to guard the milk from the farm W.lich
Is brought into our cities. in order
that it may be, in the Judgment of
the scientist, absolutely pure would
entail such cost that only the extreme
ly rich would be able to use it and then
only in small quantities. 1t seems to
be the theory that a can of milk is
the ideal breeding place for every form
of hurtful bacteria, and the carryall
by which they are borne to human
internal organisms. And SO when we
take a glass of milk with our noon
day lunch. or give baby his bowl Of
bread and milk we take our lives in
our hands, so to speak, and arso cx-
pose baby to all the terrors Of diph-4
iberia, scarlet fever typhoid and all
other terrible things. Then too the
trouble is ordinary pasteurzation don't
do any good, for these bacteria are
just naturally looking around all the
time everywhere ready to pounce INTO
the milk, even after we have it in the
glass and ready to drink. Then, 100,
just one single germ taken in with the
milk under favorable conditions, pro-
ceeds to multiply and increase till cur
whole interior is all filled up with
them Many people reading these re-
ports of our scientists grow nervous,
and become afraid to even look on
the milk in the cup, lest at the last
1t may sting like the adder. Let no.
one get alarmed about bacteria III
milk. See to II that the milk is clean,
kept in clean vessels and has no pre-
servatiye 10 prevent souring in it, and
then old folks and babies need have
no fear of destructive bacteria or in
furious germs, Clean milk is a most
wholesome and perfect food a
Clean Milk.
Clean milk can be obtained only by
keeping the dirt out. When dirt is once
in machinery it is of little avail If the
energy used in providing apparatus for
taking dirt cut of milks was applied
to keeping it out in the first place,
there would doubtless be less poor dairy
prJducts, and less occasion for pure
food laws as applied to them. The fol-
lowing little poem gives an all too
faithful picture on many farms:
The Dairymaid's Reply.
Once when the milk,nad went to milk,
I went along, and this | saw:
The cow first rubbed around the stack,
And filed her hair with dust and straw:
Then every time she switched her tail,
She brushed off litter in the pail,
A green worm anxiously in search
OF quarters fit to winter in,
Was hurrying frantically along
Somewhat belated in her spin;
She never made her house of silk,
For 10! she tumbled in the milk.
The COW stood in some cowshed ooze.
That worked up soft, between her toes;
A big fly came with pompous buzz
And settled down upon her nose
She promptly raised her foot and struck it
Pumping something in the bucket.
| The milking done, the maid arose;
| In either hand she had pail.
| The milk stool hanging over one,
| us leg SuppOTleu py lHe Dali,
| And from it dropped the stuff that stuck
! When she withdrew it from the muck.
| | ventured then mild reproof
| / told the maid just what I'd seen.
| She smiled, and said that at the well
| She had a strainer white and clean;
| That through it's meshes, soft as silk,
| Nothing could ever pass but milk.
National Farmer and Stockman.
Soil Fertility.
| One of the profits in dairying seldom
| recorded and one that should not be
overlooked, Is the Improvement of the
soil by this industry. Here in Nebraska
| with what now seems to us an mex
1 haust1ble soil, we give little thought to
| the matter of the retention and in
| crease of the fertility of our land in
many parts of the state we are skim
! ming the cream from our land, turning
! It's fertility into corn. wheat and othsr
cereals and then sending out this fer
| tility through the elevators. with no
| thought as to the results of this policy.
/ To see what will happen III this method