The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1911-08-04

Clean milk is one of the cries
of the present day. We realize
more fully than ever how much
disease is scattered by dirty milk
from unkept cows in filthy sta
bIes, and we are literally raising
Cain" to get a supply of clean
milk. This is not confined to the
cities not to any one section OF
the country. The Virginia Agri-
cultural Experiment Station gives
a few pointers how some results
may be obtained, and while they
involve a little extra labor they
do not seem to be out of the
reach even of the smallest farm
er. According to their investiga-
tions they found that sprinkling
the straw bedding in the cows
stable reduced the bacteria So per
cent. The bacteria was further re-
duced by moistening the flanks OF
the COW before milking and when
the milking begun by using
milk pals with small openings.
These three things were found to
make for clean milk and the three
things can certainly be done with
out injury in most of our farm
stables. While we would hesitate
recommending manicuring for
cows, we would recommend that
all the precautions here suggest
ed be adopted, for it does not
seem unreasonable to bow down
this low to the goddess of clean
Hness. We run enough danger
with the milk from the fact that
the COW may be diseased, without
adding the danger of outside con-
tamination.
Not long ago, the Ludlow Tri-
bune printed an appreciation of
a man who has kept his eyes OPP
en- and given the Tribune the
benefit of his sight. All newspa-
pers wish their patrons would be
as anxious to give the news be-
fore the paper is out as some of
them are to recite the items
which have been left out, the
morning the paper is mailed. Here
is the Tribune's way of putting
it:
"A citizen of Ludlow, whose
business takes him out among the
farmers of this vicinity to a con-
siderable extent, has fallen into
the habit of making note of in
teresting facts he discovers on
his travels and giving other peo-
pie a chance to know about them
thru the columns of the Tribune.
1t is Just that sort of thought
fulness that makes a local paper
newsy, keeps its readers posted
concerning Improvements being
made here and there, and stimu-
lates a wholesome interest on the
part of zone half of the people"
as to what "the other half" are
doing. The Tribune appreciates
this kind of cooperation and cor
daily invites others to follow the
example set by the citizen above
mentioned. AS we have said in
these columns once before, if you
know anything that you think 9TH
er people don't know, or that you
don't know whether they know
or don't know, and that you think
they would like to know, and that
you think they ought to- know,
Just let us know, and we will see
that they know. Then Wen all
know.
Cholera makes even the most
fearless feel a chill if it is with
in a possible striking distance.
What a world of horror it opens
up to our minds eye even when
we have never seen or really
known anything of it. The re-
ports that it was possible that it
might get into this country thru
the port of New York has caused
unusual activity among the health
to keep it from get
ting a hold and to discover just
how real the danger is. OF course,
foreign ports often have cases
of it near enough to make it
of a danger to ship
ping, but it is rare that we come |
near the danger line in
this country. Recent reports are
much exaggerated and probably |
the recent hot wave is RESPONSE
BILE for that, but vigilence will do |
no harm, for cholera is not need |
ed here.
The government wants college |
graduates who have not commit |
ted matrimony for the Philippine
as third lieutenants.
Here is a place where a college |
diploma counts at least enough