The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-08-27
MORE DARYMEN
 JOIN CAMPAIGN
 FOR PURE MILK
90 Per Cent Cooperating Cheerfully, Says
 Bulmer

Announcing that 90 per cent of the dairymen in the city are now cheer. fully complying with all regulations and cooperating with the health depart. ment in it's efforts to keep the milk supply pure, L. c. Bulmer, chief of the dairy and food division; said Tuesday that list of these operators and their ratings would be made public next Sunday,
 ''This list," he said, Twill enable milk consumers to tell whether or not their dairyman is delivering high-class milk It will serve to put the public on guard against the so-ealled bootleg dealers3
 The last statement issued by the department showed that 80 per cent of the operators were cooperating with the officials in their pure milk drive Bulmer's statement Tuesday revealed that an additional ten per cent of the dealers had been won over.
 Minority Cause Trouble
 "The remaining 10 per cent of the dealers are the ones with whom the de- pertinent is having trouble," he said. He intimated that this minority group is back of the effort to have adopted a new ordinance seeking to stabilize" the raw milk industry.
 A statement prepared for the Metro. politan Life Insurance company by Dr. M. J. Rosenau of Harvard university warning against impure milk and ad- vocating pasteurization for "real safety" was given out by officials Tuesday. It follows in part:
 Every rose has its thorns, milk has its dangers. It is apt to become con. taminated and convey the germs of dis. ease. The principal diseases trans mitted through infected milk are tuber- culosis, typhoid fever, scarlet fever, diphtheria, septic throat, sdiarrheas and dysenteries. Fortunately, every portion of milk is not a portion of poison. The dangers, however, are sufficiently real and frequent to make us careful.
 Fortunately, too, we possess an easy, cheap and reliable method of prevent tion. Sn'
 "Pasteurized milk simply means heated milk-milk that is par-boiled. Ii is not necessary to boil milk to pasteur. ize it. If you have no thermometer however, it is advisable to bring it to a
  germs are killed.
 After milk is heated, it must be sud. denly chilled and kept cold. This is q very essential part of the process of pasteurization. The milk should be heated to 148 degrees Fahrenheit for 30 minutes. A higher temperature or longer time is not necessarys Pasteur- ization has only one objects,and that is to destroy the harmful bacteria.
 Process Defined
 The word pasteurized is used in honor of the great scientist, Pasteur, who discovered the process. Pasteuri. zation neither improves nor harms the milk itself. Weak and dirty milk is still weak and dirty after 1t has been pasteurized. It would avoid confusion if pasteurized milk were simply called heated milk, for that is all it is. Pas teurized milk is just as digestible and just as nutritious as raw milk. There ii no more objection to pasteurizing mill than to broiling beef steak, n -+s@. Theree eaFe only two kinds of milk good and bad. There is growing ten dency to classify milk. But there art other classifications as certified milk Grade A, ," Grade B. EGrade O." Bt sure that your milk is graded, for it is not possible to tell what kind of milk you are buying by looking at it or by tasting it. The amount of cream does not tell the true story. If your milk is graded, ask the health officer to ex. anime a sample to tell you whether the grade is up to standard,
 Pure milk is better than purified milk, but it is so difficult to get pure milk that our only real safety lies in pasteurization."