Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-05-10

cooler the little cotton discs from
sediment tester would look different.
We have thought of making public
display of a few of our beautiful
samples we have on file at the city
hall, and if some dairymen don't adopt
cleaner methods before the govern
ment and state forces arrive this
spring, | think some will be found
crying for the rocks of the noun
tains to hide them from the wrath,
that is to come.
Some may think milk that has had
cows foot in it is all right when
strained, but the bureau of chemistry
and dairy director of bureau of anil
NAL industry hold that milk once dir
ty is never again thoroughly clean
even after such attempts as straining,
clarifying, pastueriZing. etc, are re-
sorted to by the milk dealer to re-
store a most valuable food to proper
| degrees of cleanliness and fit for hui
man use.
I Next is the germ test. Milk from
| COW suffering from tuberculosis NAV
| be safe sometimes where the gland is
| normal and lungs, bowels or lynn
| phatics more or less involved-at one
| of our recent international tubercu-
! losiS congresses the almost unani
nous decision was to the contrary.
however. l will take milk for my
| family from COW | know to be healthy
| every time in preference. Proper pas
| teurization will destroy many germs OF
| various varieties without destroying
the nutritives of milk to any great ex-
| tent.
The question Of returning milk
| bottles is no small one and it is quite
expensive to the industry to keep
| track of them.
| A milk bottle thief should be treat
| ed like a horse thief Some of our
| good citizens would do well to exam
| inc their consciences along this line.
! Thou shalt not steal'-no not even
milk bottle to put jam and jelly in
or to use about the kitchen as COM
! mon receptacle or to use for any other
purpose about the house.
! A misused, maitreated, neglected,
germ-laden, fy-teased alley milk
bottle land some less barbarously
| treated, if it had the gift of tongue
| could tell some startling truths; and
| then after all these experiences they
are picked up, wash attempted and
| then sold back to the dairyman only
| to be restored once more to the Office
| for which they were created-viz, to
carry you milk. Never mistreat a
milk bottle any more than you would
your most sacred possession. An alley
milk bottle, washed and turned over
to your dairyman may look harmless
| enough and as your dairyman is no
mind reader or prophet. how can he
! tell where you procured that bottle or
what treatment the bottle has had. We
expect to establish milk bottle ex
change to assist the milk dealer in
keeping track of his bottles.
A majority of the milk dealers have
their own bottles and are using them
want to obey the laws by using no
other bottle except their own, but the
numerous conditions that confront
The dairy owner in keeping track of
his bottles would fill volume. A milk
bottle is treated as common public
property, anybodys or nobody's to be
used for any and all purposes |
find bottles from New York, Boston.
st. Louis, Cincinnati and all over.
One local milk dealer has spent al
most 500 month for four months
Tor bottles while some certain other
dealers are and have been using his
bottles for delivery of 80 per cent of
their milk. | wish every family
would examine its premises, then look
It's conscience square in the face and
ask itself why it has SO violated the