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the tainting of milk and butter is universally admitted, opinions 

 differ as to how the mischief is worked. Some people hold that 



FIG. 34. CROW GARLIC FIG. 35. RAMSONS (A Ilium ursinum). 

 (A Ilium vinealc), show- 

 ing underground bulb 

 with bud and cluster of 

 aerial bulbils on the 

 flowering stalk. 



it is entirely due to dirty milking, whereby small pieces of garlic 

 leaves fall into the pail, but that this is the explanation is 

 improbable in the majority of cases. Some farmers hold that 

 garlic taints the breath of cows, as it does that of man, and that 



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