84 A New Dairy Industry. 



be conjectured that the state of things in America is 

 hardly better, if not worse. 



According to the most favorable calculations it was 

 found that the inhabitants of the city of Berlin con- 

 sumed, annually, in their milk, no less than one hun- 

 dred thousand pounds of cow dung, and the inhabitants 

 of the city of New York \vill consume at least three 

 times this amount per year. This is the first point 

 to be remedied. When we consider that the new- 

 born babe consumes only milk, and that a majority of 

 the ailments that are liable to befall it take their 

 origin in the stomach, we must come to the conclu- 

 sion that impurity of the milk must frequently be 

 the cause. 



The death rate of infants is appaling. On an 

 average, twenty per cent, of all children born die 

 during the first year of their life, and, out of every 

 hundred infants that die, eighty at least have been 

 fed on cows' milk. But even the healthfulness of 

 mothers' milk is entirely dependant on the physical 

 condition of the mother. Statistical investigation 

 has shown that while of one thousand infants nursed 

 by mothers belonging to the wealthy aristocratic 

 classes only .~>7 would die ; the mothers of the poorer 

 classes would lose o.~>7 out of every thousand of their 

 infants in the same time and period of life, and even 

 this terrific loss does not tell the whole story, as large 

 numbers of those surviving drag an impaired consti- 

 tution through life, owing to the deleterious effects of 

 the damaged and poor milk imbibed during infancy. 



