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

tended to supply a new remedy IN the pure
food law
Physicians, consumers, and the health officer
in Louisville appealed to the pure food workers
at the Experiment Station, and decided to
meet the point which the dairymen had
raised with another point that if the legislature
had repealed one statute, it had intended to
the subject in the later act. 1t necessary
to reinvestigate unsanitary conditions because
the new law would apply to the filthy conditions
and not the feeding of the slop. The darymen
claimed that the slop could be fed without filth.
Several diaries designated for the expert
ment. The result continued to be unclean and
unsatisfactory conditions, with which human la
Dor could not successfully deal The darymen
notified in the spring of 1906, that after the
sold their business must not be started
again in the fall. The majority of the distillers
furnish sop only in the cooler seasons. With
exception the dairymen again opened in the
the fall Without exception they again
brought before the magistrate. Large fines and
Jail sentences were imposed The jail sentences
were held up for several months to allow the
dairymen to dispose of their property. April l.
1907, set the date to end slop feeding AS
the date approached, pleas and pressure from
almost every part of the State were brought to
bear in behalf of the continuance of the practice
magistrate the committees from the consumers
clubs, the physicians, and the Louisville press
stood firm behind one standard, and swill dairy
ing, established industry, was forever abol-
shed from the State of Kentucky.
We continued the sanitary inspection of dairies
out into the farm districts. Milk depots retail
crs' ice boxes, shipping were also looked
into and many cases prosecuted. The sanitary
equipment and method in practically all the
diaries of the State were several times surveyed
New barns new milk houses, and awakened in
terest in sanitary milk production followed Fin
ally, the department secured funds to utilize the
accurate methods of bacteriology travelling
laboratory was put into the field for the pur-
poses of showing local health departments, con-
sumers. and dairymen themselves, just how the
work was done. Once, twice. three times the
milk supply of the whole State was gathered for
archaeological investigation, and the problem in
each city studied. Some of the darymen with
the conservative information just published by
the psychologists argued that the high counts
did not mean bad bacteria To all present-day
workers high counts mean careless and unclean
conditions. The task, therefore, is to convince
the dairymen; and, SO, during the past two years
we have not only been making general counts
OF the number of bacteria in the milk, but have
also been center1ng on one particular class of
bacteria, namely. those of the B. coli group, bac-
terra which originally from manure.
dairyman in Lexington supplying one of the
hospitals, had a general count of 100000 and
$4,000 bacteria of the B. coli group per tea
spoonful of milk. We took the sample box out
to his dairy, took samples of manure dust from
the barn floor, washings from the cows udders
section Of the strainer rag from the can, being
filled in the barn, and a sample of the milk from
the can. This showed him where the B. coli