Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-07-17
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days. as compared with other cities
roundabout, despite the occasional
discouraging reports received by DR..
]. M. J. Raunick, the City Health
officer, from the chemists who ex-
anime the samples the agents take.
But not all the dealers like the COM
parative statements the Health De-
partment publishes.
why do you report the number
of bacteria they find in MILK" asked
one of these men of a Telegraph
man the other day. THE presence
of bacteria does not always mean
the presence of disease germs; some
bacteria are actually good for the
health"
This question and the appended
remarks were repeated to DR.. Rau-
nick.
"All very true" said the Health
| Officer smiling. Some bacteria are
good for the human body, but not
many of the kind ordinarily re-
ported in milk by this department.
bacteria in fresh milk indicates
careless handling. liability to sour
ing in a short time and leads the
experienced chemist to look closely
for colon bacilli, and where these
are found typhoid is seldom far
, away. So you see, the bacteria re-
port is important"
Milk contamination is largely due
to carelessness, according to DR..
| Raunick, who notes this instance.
On test, milk from topped buckets
used in milking showed 497,653 bac-
| terra on the average, while milk
| from small topped pals averaged
only 129, ,439 bacteria per cubic GEN.
| timeter. That means that the bac-
terra goes into the milk can from
the stable and that with proper pre-
/ cautions this danger can be greatly
lessened. These and other things
| of the kind the careful dairyman
knows and practices.
| Speaking of milk, there are those
who believe that the milk bottle
on the doorstep in the morning will
be rarity in few years. Among
these is Eli N. Hershey. Said he
the other day: Powdered milk is
a thing of the not distant future in
| the retail trade. I believe the day
|
| milk will have it's place with the
sugar and the flour can on the
kitchen shelf and then the house
wife will be able to smile when the
iceman fails to turn up and she
can keep six months supply on hand
at a time if she so wishes. The
trend of the milk trade is in that
direction"
Those who have been through
Perry county recently report a big
/ development along dairy lines there.
| The farmers in many localities have
| turned toward milk production in an
extensive manner and as a result
number of creameries recently have
been organized. Much of this milk
reaches Harrisburg. The dairy in
terests of Perry are only in their in
| fancy. They are capable of vast
development. DR.. c. G. Jordan, rep
resentative of Lawrence county in
the Legislature. is one of those who
believes this and talks his views
to the farmers of Central Pennsyl-
vania whenever he gets a chance.
why" said he the other day, IT
| took our old hom estead as a matter
of sentiment. but I put in sense
along with my sentiment and now 1
am getting cents out of the invest
ments. I have made that old farm
| yield thousands of dollars where my
| father got hundreds. I put on it
some blooded stock and now our
herds number hundreds of head.
| There are thousands of poor farms
| in Central Pennsylvania that could
| be developed in the same way"
The late State Treasurer, Robert
K. Young, used to say the same
! thing of Tioga county. "It required
! a party of Swiss to teach us that
| selling our hay crops was poor busi-
ness" he said shortly before his
death But now we let our own
| high, bid cattle eat our hay, return
the residue to the soil, grow corn
for ensilage and sell our milk the
year around. Result-every farmer
deemed from apparent agriculture
ruin"
Many stories of the cruelty with
which the German guards treated
their prisoners have come through
| and this one, told by Lieutenant
Hutchins of the local recruiting Of
| flee is about as characteristic as they
make them. Once a French war
| prisoner was working along river
| bank, when he fell in. He couldn't
swim and called for help, but his
guard, big Prussian, stood on the
bank and laughed at the mans help
lessness. He even called another
guards attention to the poor prison
err. Both guards stood and enjoyed
the drowning Poilu's predicament-
and did nothing to help him. Fin
ally the Frenchman, feeling that he
was about gone, raised his voice and
shouted "Vive la France!" Then,
and then only, did the guards leap
in and rescue him, that they might
have chance to punish him for his
audacity and effrontery.
This is the latest from Frank
! B. McClain. 1t was written by
Girard in the Philadelphia Press:
IF you have the good luck to know
Mr.. McClain you know that he is
a bucolic philosopher. The trouble
with many farmers" he went on,
sis that they spend too much time
| trying to find out why black hen
| lays a white egg. Now our Amish
| and Mennonite farmers in Lancaster
don't care. All they are after is the
egg and they get it,"