Omaha daily bee., 1909-03-01
BE CAREFUL OF MILK
satisfy Yourself that ~ L. Free Of
Germs and Impurities which
VIII Undermine Health.

is IL reeking with impuritiesT
II 50, how do you know that Il is7
II not, how can you prove that 1t is not?
There is nothing. as a rule. of which the
public is so ignorant and so easily deceived
in as milk.
1t is all white and every dealer is ready
to guarantee its purity.
In some Instances this has proven to be
a sort Of safeguard. still the consumer
throughout the country has been able every
year to trace some of the usual sickness
to the milk that the family uses,
The crusade upon those who deal in inn
pure milk has prompted the government
to establish a pure food law and to make
certain recommendations to milk dealers
which will materially improve the condition
II they are adopted.
In certain sections these recommendations
have become laws which are stringently
enforced.
For instance, the government says that
Pasteurizing milk is desirable, because it
will promote health.
Nathan Straus, who has made an ex-
haustlve study of the subject and who has
just returned from Europe, where he went
to aid in establishing Pasteurlzing plants
in Europe, says that Pasteurizlng is neces-
sary. He was speaking Of state supervision,
or inspection, which he said was a step
in the right direction.
New York has adopted Pasteurization.
Chicago has adopted Pasteurization
Milwaukee has adopted Pasteurization
The state of Iowa compels the Pasteur-
ization of milk which is to be returned to
the barn for animals.
DR.. Connell, our health commissioner,
Pasteurization and also urges
the bottling of all milk.
The Atlantic Sanitary Dairy company
has adopted the governments recommenda-
ton and Pasteurizes all OF its product. 1t
is Impossible for any of the milk handled
by this company to be impure.
Pasteurization is a process Of heating
milk to 100 degrees and Immediately cooling
It to As degrees. BY this process every
possible germ is killed and the product Is
sweet and pure.
The Atlantic is extremely careful of the
milk that It receives before Pasteurizing.
1t has satisfied itself that the milk is from
absolutely healthy cows and that 1t is
transported from the farms in absolutely
clean vessels and that those who handle
1t are absolutely free of disease. Not only
that, it delivers it's product in glass and
customers are able to determine the per-
centage of butter fat by the cream line.
The city of Omaha compels dairymen to
market no milk containing less than 8 per
cent of butter fat. The Atlantic dairy's
contracts require from 81 to 4 per cent
butter fat.
In speaking of the matter yesterday Mr..
Smith of the firm said: we believe that
all milk retailed in the city should be
bottled, for several reasons. Milk is a very
deceptive looking fluid and very few house.
keepers have the means of knowing how
rich or how poor the milk is they are
buying. Bottle 1t for them and they can
tell clearly the cream line. Bottling might
increase, the cost OF milk, but a better
article would have to be sold. Chicago
has a bottle ordinance similar to the above,
on account Of which its health commissioner
has been able to report a reduction from
about 20 per cent to 3 or 4 per cent of sam
pies found below standard.
w believe the public is entitled TO good
milk and giving the housekeepers some
means of knowing whether milk bought by
them is good or not without having to
send 1t to some laboratory to nave it
tested.
w believe that the larger companies are
setting the pace on this milk proposition
and are willing to have the strictest kind
OF ordinance enacted and enforced and
are willing to obey the law in every par
ticular. They have too much at stake 10
do differently"
MI. Smith said that DIR. Connell favored
boiling all mink and 1t. In
Chicago since the adoption OF the law the
health of the city has been improved more
than 25 per cent.
At the Atlantic each can of milk is tested
to see that 1t comes up to the requirement.
of richness, purity and flavor-if 1t does not
1t is returned to the farmer. II a can of
milk passes the test II is poured through
a strainer into a conductor and carried to
the receiving vat. where IT. is thoroughly
stirred to insure a uniform grade for all
milk. These watts hold 800 gallons, and
when one housewife thinks her neighbor
is getting richer milk than she does, she
is mistaken, for it all comes from the
same vat.
From this vat the milk Is forced through
a filter in order that any impurities may
be taken out. This is done as an extra pre-
caution, for the Atlantic requires clean milk
from the farmers who supply the milk.
After passing through the filter the milk
is Pasteurized. Many think that the Pas
teurization process consists Of putting in
some foreign substance, but that is not
the case, as it is simply heating the milk
to Kill any possible germs or bacteria