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buy the milk they consume; but as there are numberless family 

 cows kept in cities, towns, and villages, by private residents, who 

 not only thus furnish their own milk, but supply an occasional 

 neighbor, we let the estimate stand as not far out of the way. 



As milk is, or ought to be, largely consumed by children, and 

 enters also into various processes of table use, and cookery, it 

 should be pure, produced by healthy cows, which are fed on 

 nutritious, and healthy food. It is of the highest importance, 

 therefore, to know how so to produce the milk, as well as to 

 economize, in every possible way, the manner of its production. 



SWILL MILK. 



It is known to every intelligent person that there are millions 

 of gallons of what is called milk, produced in the neighborhoods 

 of our largest cities within them, indeed which is utterly unfit 

 for any edible use whatever, swill milk, so called, drawn from 

 cows fed upon the refuse of distilleries, and other garbage, 

 poisonous, and offensive. The whole internal system of the 

 cows, so fed, becomes distempered. The foetid liquid merely 

 percolates through the diseased glands and milk veins of the 

 cow, and is drawn off in the color of milk, without its proper 

 substance, and to the detriment, instead of nourishment, of every 

 stomach into which, either directly or indirectly, it enters. 



Every such milk dairy is a common nuisance; and as such it 

 should be suppressed, and the owners and keepers of them sum- 

 marily punished, both by fine, and imprisonment. And if a 

 "Humane Society," or a "Society for the Prevention of Cruelty 

 to Animals" exist in the vicinity of where these nuisances are 

 kept, the first should compel the health authorities of the munici- 

 palities to prohibit the sale of their milk, and thus cease poison- 

 ing children, and the other should rescue the poor suffering cows 

 from further torture, and a lingering death. It would be so in a 

 country where law is enforced for we already have law enough 



