MILK DANGERS AND REMEDIES 



IT may with justice be said that in no depart- 

 ment of applied bacteriology is more activity 

 apparent than in that which has for its object the 

 building up of a scientific basis for dairy practice. 

 Although this is undoubtedly true, yet, unfortun- 

 ately, unlike its continental neighbours, the British 

 public, with whom practically rests the control of 

 our dairy industries, has hitherto held itself 

 strangely aloof, evincing little or no sympathy in 

 researches which, even if they fail to interest, 

 should surely impress with a sense of the great 

 hygienic importance attaching to them. But this 

 apathy is not only to be deprecated in the interests 

 of health, but also on economic grounds. 



We have only to turn to the reports issued by 

 the Board of Agriculture to realise what this 

 characteristic British apathy has brought about 

 in the dairy industry of this country. Thus in 

 the year 1898 we are officially informed that we 

 imported 359,425,136 pounds of butter, the little 

 country of Denmark alone sending over to us 



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