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Show OGDEN MILK IS OF SOOD Don't be afraid to drink Ogden milk. It only averages 2,000 germs to the drop While this assurance to the housewives house-wives of tho city looks like Irony k is given in ail sincerity by W. D Child, city food and dairy inspector, who has just received a bacteriological report on Ogden milk from Dr R. W. Askloy, bacteriologist of the Utah university uni-versity The report shows that the city's milk supply Is exceptionally good. In fact It is better than most any other city In the United States In eastern cities certified milk, which Is the kind guaranteed by tho municipal health departments' for the use of children, nviy contain 30,000 germs to every fifteen drops. The milk of this city collected at random made a slightly better s'howlng than "certified" milk. Some of the samples sam-ples tested showed as low as 7,000 bacilli to fifteen drops while In some Instancos tho bacterological count gave more than 1.000,000 germs to fifteen drops. In the examination of the milk "no effort w,as made to differentiate the bacilli, the number of germs, being counted without respget to their respective re-spective names or their vocation in life Good germs and bad gernis wero all counted alike. There Is a germ peculiar to milk known as the iacto bacllus which might bo considered a model germ, as Us reveries consist only In souring milk. It is most likely like-ly that a large part of the bacteriological bacter-iological life present in the tested milk consisted In colonies of the lacto bacilli, which have nothing In common com-mon with disease germs and are not at all hnrmful to the human system In oftfl or tii'o lnataacsa whero the I germ count showed abnormally Lirgc the milk dealers will bo warned and somo investigation may he made to ascertain the cause of tho bad showing. show-ing. On the whole the report Is a vory encouraging one. |