LOUIS PASTEUR. 



Born Dec. 27th 1822, this son of a tanner early showed his ex- 

 traordinary talent, and if I was to attempt only to enumerate the re- 

 sults of his life's work, it would take more space than this pamphlet 



Nevertheless I cannot publish a treatise on Pasteurizing without 

 hinting at some of the benefits which the farmers have derived from 

 this great man's work. 



He is the first one who studied this world of bacteria, or, as he 

 called it, " infinite little?' in a systematic manner. Thus he proved 

 how fermentations such as in beer, wine and milk are due to living 

 organisms and that different bodies are acted upon by different fer- 

 ments. 



He also showed how most if not all epidemic or infectious dis- 

 eases are due to these little fellows and that when once properly 

 known the remedy for the disease may be found. Thus, he saved 

 millions of dollars to the silk worm growers in southern Europe and 

 to the sheep-farmers of Australia. 



The manufacturers of vinegar learned from him that the true 

 vinegar ferment is a little fungus. 



The winegrowers learned that by heating their light wines to 

 140 and cooling them again, they could preserve them much longer. 



The brewers received the hint that it was possible to make a uni- 

 form good beer, which would keep well, by the same process of heat- 

 ing and cooling (pasteurization) and the use of a pure culture yeast. 



All these hints, even if they have not been developed practi- 

 cally by Pasteur, have saved millions of dollars to the farmers. 

 Though Pasteur never took up the milk studies, he is said to have re- 

 marked to an English scientist with a sigh: " Ah! fhere is a rich field 

 indeed for investigations." 



Nevertheless the useful investigations of milk and its ferments 

 made by other scientists such as Storch, Grotenfeldt, Weigmaii, 

 Freudenreich, Kramer, Adamets, Hueppe, Graeff, Duclaux, Conn and 

 others, is all more or less excited by Pasteur's original work. 



Hence I am correct in saying that if dairy farmers will only 

 apply the lessons given by these men practically, Pasteur will also 

 have been the means of saving them millions of dollars. 



But all this may be said to refer only to dollars and cents, when 

 I think of the human life which this man's work has saved, when I 

 think of the human sufferings which he has alleviated, then I lay 

 down my pen, no words of mine can express the gratitude which we 

 all owe him. J. MONRAD. 



After writing the above, news comes from Paris that Louis Pasteur died Sept. 28th, having suf- 

 fered a -considerable time from paralysis. 



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