El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1910-06-23
By
Frederic
]. HaSkn

erence to tuberculosis Out of 10000
goats and kids brought TO a big
| slaughter house in Paris. not a single
one had the slightest trace of that dis
ease Most people are prejudiced
! against goats milk. but scientists assert
! that it is fully as wholesome and more
nutritive than cows milk A farmer
near Washington sells all the goat
| milk he can produce at one dollar per
! gallon, and gets $50 each for his milch
| goats.
/ An interesting sidelight on the cost Of
| living was afforded by an inquiry not
| long ago as to the share received by
| each person in the handling and safe
| of milk, which was made by one Of the
! leading cities Of the country 1t was
| found that in a quart of milk selling for
eight cents the farmers share was s.O275,
while the railroad received half a mill
The dairymen received $.O475. 1t was
estimated that the profits Of the dairy
man amounted to about One-fourth OF
q cent per quart.
Demand For Good Milk.
There never was time when the
highest grade milk was in such demand
as II IS today Some years ago, an Eng
nShman who settled on the Hudson
river established small dairy farm
with only few COWS and a few hun
dred acres Of land. He produced only
the very highest grade Of milk, and his
business has expanded until today he
han 1000 of the best cows in America,
and 5000 acres of the finest land along
| the historic Hudson He receives $50
quart for all the milk he has to SELL
which is two and one-haIf TIMES the
average price of milk in New York
| City.
The breeders of mich COWS are able
r. ho-
of marvellous. Only recently, a Hol-
stein FRESHMAN COW was put under test
at the State Experiment farm of Mis-
souri,, to determine whether or not she
could make good the claim OF her owner
| that she is the champion milk produc-
ing cow Of the world On some days
she gave as much as As quarts of milk
! a term of days. she averaged more than
40 quarts, or upwards of 90 pounds a
day.
Much Bacteria In Milk.
The public hears much about the
bacteria found in milk, and no doubt
wonders how the analyst is able TO
count them. Of course. it would be a
physical impossibility to count the
| 10000 or more which sometimes in
habit a single drop Of milk In order,
therefore, properly to determine the
number of bacteria present, the analyst
takes cubic centimeter, or about one
sixth OF q teaspOonful of milk. This he
dilutes many times with sterilized fluid,
and then takes a small portion of the
mixture and places il on a plate. He
is then able TO count the number under
the microscope, and by multiplying the
result of the count by number rep
resenting the degree Of dilution, he is
able correctly to determine how many
bacteria there are in cubic centimeter
Of milk. BY no means all of the BAG
terra found in milk are harmful In
deed, q large proportion of them are
beneficial TO the human system.
1t requires nearly 1000. 00O, 900 pounds
Of butter annually to supply the people
Of the United States While the cream
cry business has increased many fold
In recent years, the very large proper
ton Of the butter of the country is still
made by the busy farmers housewife
under the old fashioned methods that
obtained so years ago. The butter pro-
duced by creameries amounts 10 but
little more than one-fourth as much as
that produced by the farmers wives.
While the production Of milk amounts
to more than II quarts per capita per
day. only a very small proportion of
this is used as whole milk by the peo-
pie. 1t has been estimated that the milk
used in its natural state amounts TO
Law Severe For Average Diaries.
Counting a perfect dairy as rated at
100 points. the average dairy in the
United States is said TO deserve rating
of less than so points for cleanliness
and sanitary conditions. 1t is said that
while pasteurization overcomes most of
the evils of impure milk, when rightly
done, when improperly done it enhances
those evils instead of diminishing them
Improper pasteuriZation tends to kill
the good germs, which succumb TO less
heat than the bad ones. 1t has very
frequently been found that improperly
paSteurized milk has shown a greater
number Of dangerous germs than the
same milk kept for the same length Of
time in raw state II is said that i'm
proper pasteurizatiOn is a very great !
evil in the milk business. since It tends |
to give the user of such milk a false
sense of security.
1t is estimated that One-half Of the !
infant mortality in the United States |
is due to impure cows milk. The same /
is probably true with reference to ty- /
pheid fever and a number of other /
diseases. No fact in medical history is /
better attested than that milk is one of !
the greatest of the disseminators of ty- |
phOid fever. The evidence contained in |
a recent work by the Public Health and 1
Marine Hospital Service is absolutely /
conclusive on that question
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