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Show I HIT MILK IS POISON SAYS IN EXPERT IT LOGIN Logan, Feb. 3. "Good milk Is clean milk, dirty milk 1b poiBon," declared Ben R. BIdredge of Salt. Lake City, president of tne State Dairymen's as sociation, in a talk on "Milk Its Production and Care for Home Use,' before tbe Housekeepers' conference ".There is no food more valuable, none sb easily contaminated, none produc ed under conditions that are sometimes some-times bo grossly vile. We cannot pay too much attention to its production and care. We pass through our ceme terieB and notice great numbers of little graves. Has it ever occurred to you that the responsibility for a good many of those little mounds rests with the man who produces dirty milk, or upon tbe woman who is Ignorant of the care of good milk?" In opening his address Mr. El-dredge, El-dredge, who Is one of the leading dairy authorities of the state and an instructor in dairying at the Agricultural Agricul-tural college, 6aid that only the healthiest cows should be uaed for milk production. He advised city people who could to go out and visit the dairies from which they get their milk supply. "The best dairy Inspection Inspec-tion in the world is the inspection of the consumer," he said. He advised dairymen to employ only cleanly-clothed, cleanly-clothed, healthy men around the dairy and insisted on the use of only covered pails. He said the bottle used by the commercial dairymen was the most sanitary container. The speaker then launched into a discussion of the bacterial content of milk. He said that many of the bacteria bac-teria that are the cause of the most virulent diseases In man thrive and develop amazingly in milk. "It almost seems that milk is their happy hunting ground," he said. He said that when they get into milk and from there Into the human body, if it happens to be in a tired, weak- It ened condition, typhoid, scarlet fever. L diphtheria, measles, dysentery, chol- JK era and many other diseases are apt Fs to result, In considering milk as food Mr. El- dredge gave scientific data to show its highly nutritious properties and advised that it should be sipped slowly. This, he said, made it much more easy to digest, because it had time to mix properly with the gastric Juices of the Btomach. In dlscuBsing the production of milk for babies Mr. Eldredge roundly scored the farmer whose cows were dirty, or his clothes or those of his milkers. He said that the proffer of milk from such unclean conditions for the use of babies was brutal. He advised pasteurization of milk in the home. This could be done, he said, by putting cotton stoppers in the bottles, bot-tles, placing the bottles in a tin pail with a false bottom, such as might be made by an inverted pie plate In the bottom of the pail. The pail should then be filled with watr to the heighth of the milk in the bottles bot-tles and heated to a temperature of about 150 degrees. The pail should then be taken from the stove and let stand for about twenty minutes. After that the milk should be cooled rapidly to a temperature of about fifty degrees. He said that this pae teurizatlon was different from sterilization ster-ilization in that the milk did not boil and thereby leave a cooked taste and become more indigestible, as he said boiled milk is. "One authority, Professor Leisch man, says that contamination of milk can be reduced to one two-thou-antfths of its average bacterial content con-tent by just ordinary care in milking," milk-ing," said Mr Eldredge in concluding "But I want to say that what Professor Pro-fessor Leischman calls 'ordinary care' is not the care that attends the milking milk-ing in one farm in fifty in this en-' en-' lightened 6tate of Utah." |