The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1914-02-04
Clean Milk OdOrless.

Clean milk does not carry any
odors or flayors that require any
aeration for their removal. II milk
has a 'Cowey" odor, or flavor. II is
simple evidence of serious contamina-
ton. and here l will say TO those
who depend so much on the strain
ing of milk for the removal of dirt,
that the dirt which falls Into the
milk during milking and while 1t Is
in the stable Is highly soluble and
no straining on earth will purify milk
after such contamination, and / will
here repeat my old and well l-worn
slogan; There is no way on earth
Of taking dirt out of milk equal, to
been produced according TO sanitary
methods and conditions the less ma
nipulauon. aeration and pouring It
uudergoes the better.
The speaker then launched into a dis
cussion OF the bacterial content OF milk.
lie said that many OF the bacteria that
are the cause of the most viruent dis
eases in man thrive and develop amaz-
ingly in milk.
1T almost seems that milk is their
happy hunting ground he said. lie
said that when they get into milk and
from there into the human body, II it
happens to be In a tired. weakened condi-
ton. typhoid. scarlet fever diphthera,
meas sles, dysentery, cholera and many
other diseases are apt to result.
Scientific Data.
In considering milk as food Mr.. E,,d-
redge gave scientific data to show it's
highly nutritious properties and advised
that ii should be slipped slowly. This,
he said. made II much more easy 10
digest, because II had time TO mix prom
erly with the gastric juices OF the stom-
ach.
In discussing the production of milk
for babies Mr.. Eldredge roundly scored
the farmer whose cows were dirty. or
his clothes or those of his mixers He
Said that the DTOffGr nf mil
unclean conditions for tho use of bshies
WAS brutal lie advised pasteuriza ton Of
milk in the home. This could be done
he said, by putting cotton shoppers In
the bottles. placing the bottles In a FIN
pail with false bottom, such as mipbt
be made by an Inverted pie plate in the
bo potion fIIo OF the thS pail The pail should then
the milk in the bottles and heated 10 n
temperature of about 150 degrees, TIE
pail should then be taken from the stove
After that the milk should be cooled ran,
idly to a temperature of about Tiftv
degrees He said that this pastcuriza
non non Was sh ii niterent 6d from sterilization In
leave a cooked taste and become more
indigestibles, as he said boiled milk Is
one authority, Professor Leischman.
says that contamina ton of milk can he
reduced to one two-thousa ndths of its
average bacterial content by lust ordt9
mary care II milking. said Mr. Eidredge
III cohcluolHe' But 1 want to saw tha \
what professor Lelscaman calls 'ordi-
nary care is not the care that attends
the milking In one farm in fifty In this
enlightened state OF Utah. - ''i'
DR.. Ball Talks.
'obeying the Law of Life" was the
subject OF an interesting address along
the line OF eugeDics by DIR, F. d Rni11
director OF The Utah experiment sta ,;nn'
Following Mr.. I:ldredge's discussion ~
the milk question. DR., Ball sketcbed the
WORK OF man IN producing. better plant
and declared that with ali that e,l,,eS recmrS
before him. claiming as he does to eronu rem
resent the highest type OF animate iifc
ON earth today, man Is doing almost evs