Show the town cow it to is a surprising tact to many to seam learn that there aro are a very considerable number of cows cowa kept within tho the limits of every great city cows are a fa familiar millar sight on the streets of oc many small towns but in our vast congested urban centers the night ot of mo on la is very unusual of course the number camber ot of cows hero here Is much smaller in proportion to the population and it la Is very unfortunate in many ways that there are not more cows dwelling la in our midst so eo to the city cow when owned and managed by a professional milkman has baa proved to be a considerable menace to health in tho the past entirely due to the way in which such animals have been handled we do not wish to bo be understood as advocating the operation of commercial dairy herds under orbnn arban conditions but wo we do believe firmly that it would be a great agent tor for the better health of city children if there were more city cows owned by their parents census figures show that the infant mortality rato in largo cities is much higher than among children of the same class age and mode of life in smaller mailer towns or in tho the country while a number of at factors combine to bring about the early passing away at af a comparatively large proportion of the little children who are unfortunate enough to be born in a large city tho the who give their time and to these serious problems are almost unanimously agreed that the greatest single factor behind those these atrociously high infant death rates Is IB that ot impure milk impure milk has and still boea coea roup a torrI torribio blo harvest and among those bo are aleas t able to babp themselves carrying its ita dis disease oase germs its decora posed organic matter KB its filth of various kinds kanda in a liquid form it Is necea barlly taken by many children without having been heated or purified in any way ita malignant g t contents con tonta attack tho the child child in its weakest organs those of digestion and the results enter into those census figures referred to much aluch can be done to safeguard the milk supply of too the cities much Is being done now and more will be done in tho the future as aa fast ar aa tho the publio public awakes awaken to the tremendous importance of tho the subject one of the quick quickest eit ways to get results in your campaign to protect your own family faintly from impure milk Is to thoroughly investigate the source of supply and seo that tho the milk comes from healthy cows and la is handled in such a way that it roaches reaches you within twelve hours after milking that it has baa not been warrior warmer than 60 degrees since milking and that there has been no possible chance ot of dust or dirt of any character getting into it the very best and mont satisfactory way to pure milk at the lowest possible cost Is to keep a cow yourself it if your circumstances will permit all you will need its Is LL a small stable and a lot of paddock where the cow can get out into tho the tresh fresh air for or ex erciso even under city or suburban conditions condl tlona milk can can be produced tor for from three to alyo cents a quirt quart buying all the feed many a city pan man is 19 getting all tho the milk his family wants for their own use and is in selling belling enough besides to pay tor for his bla cows cowa entire keep milk when taken from tho them cow in the proper manner Is as clean as any article ol of food that we have tho sooner it reaches tho the consumer and the fewer hands bands it has haa to pass through the smaller the opportunity for foreign matter and disease germs to got get into it the city family that owns feeds and milks its own cow enjoys one of those great privileges that make the country a better place to 0 live in than the city |