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Halle about 75 milligrammes, whilst in another 

 sample as much as 0*362 grammes per litre were 

 detected. In Berlin 10 milligrammes, and in 

 Munich 9 milligrammes per litre, were found. 

 Dr. Backhaus has estimated that the city of Berlin 

 alone consumes daily with its milk no less than 

 300 cwt. of cow- dung. If we associate these 

 amounts of solid impurities with their consequent 

 bacterial impurities, then we shall obtain some idea 

 of what the microbial population of these milk- 

 supplies may amount to. 



These impurities are almost wholly preventable, 

 but, unfortunately, but little importance is appar- 

 ently attached to their presence in milk as a rule 

 by dairymen. 



In a letter published in the Sussex Daily News 

 a correspondent and well - known authority on 

 dairy matters sounds a timely note of warning to 

 our dairy managers : 



"I happen to know," he writes, " for a fact that Ameri- 

 cans who visited one of our Dairy Shows at Islington 

 were so disgusted at the method or rather lack of 

 cleanly method exhibited there as our ordinary way of 

 milking cows, that these visitors stated that nothing 

 would induce them to drink milk while in England. I 

 mention this circumstance so as to bring home to the 

 minds of English dairy-farmers who may read this letter 

 how very backward we are in this country as compared 



