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drawn from the cow, should be strained, and cooled to a temperature of 

 50 or 60 degrees. 



If you get milk cooled to 50 or 60 degrees, it can be kept for a long 

 time, and will be fit for human consumption. Milk which is not cooled 

 at once forms a medium for the development of bacteria, and very often 

 contagious diseases are spread through an impure milk supply. Milk 

 which is sold to towns and cities ought to be under the strict control of 

 the municipality, and the people of the municipality should see to it that 

 the milk is above reproach. In Glasgow and Copenhagen the milk is 

 inspected, and the people of those cities get milk of a much higher stan- 

 dard than is sold in this country, and at no greater cost. 



I see no reason why skim-milk should not be sold. It is of special 

 value to growing children. A great many cities have by-laws prohibiting 

 the sale of skim-milk. I hold that skim-milk should be sold, that the poor 

 of our towns and cities ought to have it. But it is hard to get anyone 

 to buy skim-milk, because it gives one the appearance of being poor. 

 Buttermilk is a most healthful drink. If people would drink butter- 

 milk instead of whiskey, it would probably be better for all concerned. 

 Scientists tell us that there are germs in sour milk which fight against 

 the germs causing death to the human body. It is also said that butter- 

 milk has a tendency to lengthen life. People in some parts of Europe 

 drink largely of sour milk, and these people live to a very great old age. 



We look to the women of this country to start a campaign for the 

 production of clean, sweet milk that will build up a nation of 

 strong girls and boys. We find our Governments spending large sums 

 of money to bring people into Canada. What are they spending for the 

 promotion of the health of the boys of this country, especially when 

 small? Any one boy of this country is worth a dozen from any other 

 country in the world. Make the conditions such that girls and boys may 

 build a strong and vigorous nation. I look to the women of this con- 

 vention to start a campaign in favor of pure milk. 



CARE AND HANDLING OF MILK. 



(Address by Miss L. Shuttleworth, Guelph, at the W. I. Convention, 



December, 1906.) 



Dairying, as it is to-day, may be considered the leading industry of 

 our country, and justly so. There is not a meal in the average family 

 that does not in some form, or to some extent, depend upon milk to 

 furnish a part of the general variety used. Nothing seems so equally 

 wholesome to both old and young, even to the greatest extremes, as the 

 product from the cow. An article of diet so generally used as milk neces- 

 sarily demands the greatest care possible in its production and handling. 



The public is beginning to question whether the people who furnish 

 milk and its products have not been either careless or indifferent as to 

 the care of their surroundings. Therefore, the question of cleanliness, 

 from the producer's standpoint, is not a matter of sentiment, but a prac- 



