The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1913-12-16

from the teats and udders of cows was examined.
There was some dispute as to whether the milk
from the udder not sterile. Finally
it was agreed, barring germs from diseased I'D
ders, that the milk comes from the udder, for all
practical purposes, in sterile condition. and is
contaminated in the barn, by the mixer, by being
placed in uncean utensils, and so on. Agricul-
tural psychologists working in the interest of
the dairy industry, made the majority of inquiries
of this character. Prof Russell, now director of
the Wisconsin Experiment Station; Prof H. w.
Conn, bacterologist of the Storrs, Conn, Sta
ton; Prof. Hunziker, of Cornell University, were
among those who studied the ARCHAEOLOGICAL
problems of milk from the cows teat through
into the market, helped to classify several hun
dred kinds of bacteria, to show that clean cond-
tons and clean production of the milk insure
low count, and that reverse conditions always
show high count
Accompanying archaeological Investigations
such men as Prof. Pearson, who started with
the Dairy Division of the United States Depart
ment of Agriculture, was later professor dairying
at Cornell University, and now president of Iowa
State College, made study of the equipment and
method necessary in the dairy for the production
Of sanitary milk Inquiries were made by the Fed
eral Dairy Division into the market milk supplies
OF cities. Health officers, such as DR.. Woodward.
OI w dSHlnSlOn, u L., undertook systematic STU
dies and finally, in 1906, all the experts of the
Federal Government were brought together by
the United States Public Health and Marine Hos
pltal Service to collaborate the practical and
scientific facts with relation to the milk supply
and its proper control. Thus it was that fund
of accurate and important information was estab-
llshed which, while still leaving many important
problems for investigation, extensive, accur-
ate, and practical enough to revolutionize the
sanitary condition of the dairy business, when the
educational effort and enforcement of the law
should put the information into the hands of
the health officer, the dairymen and the milk
trade, and require everyday compliance. The
aim of the Kentucky pure food work is to OBJ
tain such results.
Up until 1904, effort under the pure food law
of Kentucky directed towards eliminating
water, artificial colorng, skmming and pre-
servatives like formaldehyde and boracic acid in
milk. There were several statutes against con-
taminated milk, the enforcement of which was
not lodged in any particular officials The evils
of the slop dairy were extensive and dangerous
especially in and around Louisville. For several
years the health officer had been fighting to have
these closed. Farm dairymen made assessments
to help and employed counsel, cheap swill milk
being competition which they could not easily
meet. The slop diaries were really for the pur-
pose of fattening out and diseased cows
shipped from the farms into the stock yards with
milk as a by-product. Cows, chained like the
goose, were fattened and MIXED in filth Finally
the health officer secured indictments. case
was taken to the Court Of Appeals, and, on De-
cember 9, 1908, Chief Justice Burnam sustained
the old statute of the State against the sale of
milk from cows fed slop or liquid dstillery
waste. With this backing, the health department
renewed another year of attack. Attorneys for