The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-08-03
w. p. Sherlock Tells What to Avoid in
Use Of MIX and Dangers Re-
sultins From Dizzy
Milk.
ONCE DIRTY, ALWAYS so
Must Purchase MIX From Reputable
Dairyman Who Gives Reason
to Show MIX
is Clean.
lBy DR.. w. P. Sherlock, Local State

and City Milk Inspector
Milk once dirty is always dirty and
dirty milk will sour quicker than clean
milk. Milk on cooling will absorb
gases and doors from the barn-yard or
dairy barn if left to cool in the dairy
barn. Milk that is taken from the
COW under proper conditions, taken to
cool clean milk house, cooled and
bottled is many times over better
than the milk taken from the COW I'M
der the same conditions and left to
cool In the barn and in the ordinary
milk can where it is exposed to the
doors of the barn until the can is filled
then hauled over many miles to the
customer where 1t is again exposed to
The heat and dust OF the street and
lastly measured out in a receptacle
! that has been open to collect dust and
filth and finally deposited in a can, jar
or crock left on the sidewalk or
porch in the sun, and some wonder
why the milk sours SO soon
II you would have clean sweet milk
purchase it of reputable dealer who
4 not only tells you his product is clean
but whose entire personnel is indica-
tive OF cleanliness. may as well ex-
pect to get pure cider from wormy
apples as to expect clean milk from
an unsanitary milkman.
Flies would rather follow dirty
q milk wagon than eat off your best
table and do not drink milk after flies
have washed their numerous and pro-
verbal dirty feet in 1t any more than
you would drink milk after the cat had
taken her bath In 1t, and the chances
are that the cat is the cleaner OF the
two. 70 percent of the babies in the
cities get their food through tube
sixty miles long 1t takes from SO to "a
hours for the milk to run from the
COW end OF the tube to the baby end
of the tube and this tube is open In
many places for pollution
Health Bulletin Advice.
The Save The Babies Number of the
Iowa Health Bulletin has the fol,owins
to say in regard to bottle fed babies:
Ten bottle fed babies die to one
breast fed. Give baby breast milk,
there Is, no COW that will ever give
ideal milk for human baby, she may
give ideal milk for a calf with four
ssomaehs but baby has but one.
Because some babies have lived
through filth is no argument that
yours will 800
Never let a baby nurse from the re-
mains of bottle he has not finished.
Take It away from the crib, pour out
the milk and clean 1t a. once, first with
cold water, then with hot water and
borax Zone tablespoonful to pint OF
water) set it aside, boil with a little
soda In the water, rinse and cool be-
fore using.
Stale milk curds sticking to the In
side OF the bottle become poisonous
and may contaminate fresh milk COM
ing In contact with them.
No general instructions can be CIV
en- about the preparation of a milk
mixture for your baby, each baby
needs combination suited to his d.
gestion, and the milk mixture upon
which some other baby is thriving
may be too weak or too strong for
your baby. Your doctor will tell you
how to mix the food
II your baby has bowel trouble re-
member that every drop of milk that
goes into his mouth adds to the poison
already there.
bottle fed baby should not vomit
Y its food is pure and given In the
Fight proportions unless It is given
100 much at time
Do not nurse the baby whenever It
cries, babies who are nursed irregular