The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-01-22
NO WATER IN MILK
The Housewives Who Think
There Is Are Mistaken.
City's WatchfulnesS Such as to
Make 1t Impossible.
WHAT CAUSES THE SUSPICION
The Cows Are Responsible for
the Whole Thing.
Cream Is Slow to Separate in
HOlstein Milk.

/ Sooner or later every Topeka house
wife concludes that the milk deliv-
cred at her door has been in too close
proximity to a hydrant or an old fash
toned pump. She has taken a bottle
OF milk Off the back porch, set it in the
kitchen window or the refrigerator
and waited for the cream to rise"
Hours later when there should be a
distinct cream line she has had to
serve coffee she was ashamed of. She
decided then and there she was going
to change dairymen; that she was go
| ing to buy milk of someone who didn't
place such a high valuation upon Kaw
river water.
! As matter of fact there have been
only one or two instances since the
city milk inspection department was
brought up to date where watered
milk was discovered No dairyman
could get away with that sort of pol
icy for longer than a day or two. The
city milk inspector, DR.. L. w. Rowles,
I gathers samples of milk in Topeka
every morning and no dairynan knows
what day one of his samples will be
picked up. And with the methods in
use in the inspection department wat
cred milk looms up like black cloud
on picnic day.
The department has a standard for
/ butter fat. Milk must contain a given
amount and the milk from any Ordin-
! airy COW or herd of cows comes up to
the requirements unless tempered
with. The inspection department
makes a record of the butterlat test of
each dairyman each day a sample is
/ taken. The tests run along at nearly
a level so the inspector knows just
about what to expect of each dairy
man.
/ Visits the Dairy.
+ The moment a sample falls below
the standard the inspector takes an
. n mi low a-fi1
another sample is taken. If that tests
low the ispector makes a trip to the
dairy about milking time and takes
sample. Just that sort of procedure
was followed in the one notable case
! of milk-Watering. The milk inspector
picked up a sample that showed a
much lower butterfat test than that
particular dairyman's average. Anoth-
er sample was taken at once. 1t was
low also. Several more were taken
and they fell below standard. Then
one morning the inspector appeared at
the dairy barn while the milking was
still in progress. The sample taken
then measured up to the ordinary
average. The other samples were
then tested for water and it was found
that the dairyman was adding one gal
/ Ion of water to each four gallons of
milk. A prosecution and conviction
| followed.
They Are Mistaken.
]
! plants housewives make about water
| ed milk. But they are mistaken as to
the water. Frequent complaints reach
/ the inspectors office about milk,
coming from certain breed of cows.
Milk from Holstein cows contains as
much butterfat as that from the Jer-
/ sey or Guernsey cows but it is diff
cult to make a housewife believe it.
! The fat globules in Holstein milk are
/ extremely small and separate from the
/ rest of the milk very slowly. In other
words the cream is very slow in rising.
| There is no distinct cream line. The
/ fat remains scattered through the
solution for long time and this fact
| leads the housewife to complain that
the milk has been watered
/ No complaints come in about Jersey
milk although the test shows no more
! butterfat in Jersey than in Holstein
milk. But the Jersey butterfat sepa-
rates from the liquid contents quickly
Its separation is complete. The cream
i line can be seen without half trying
and the housewife is certain that such
milk has not been watered. But after
| the cream has been taken off the Jer-
sey milk, the milk is blue while the
Holstein milk is white and sometime s
almost yellow.
| Watering or Swimming milk sold to
/ the public would be an extremely dan
gerous practice in Topeka under pres
/ ent arrangem entS and DR.. ROwleS does
not believe that any of that kind of
work iS going