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"^^ERlCAN HERD-BOOli 



DEVOTED TO 

 AGRICULTURE, HORTICULTURE, AND RURAL AND DOMESTIC AFFAIRS. 



Perfect Agriculture is the true foundation of all trade and industry. — Libbio. 



Vol. XII.— No. 2.] 



9th mo. (September) 15th, 1847. 



[Whole No. 152. 



PUBLISHED MONTHLY, 



BY J O S I A H T A T U M, 



EDITOR ANIJ PROPRIETOR, 



No. 50 North Fourth Street, 



PHILADELPHIA. 



Price one dollar per year. — For conditions see last page. 



For the Farmers' Cabinet. 

 Adulterated Milk. 



To THE Editor, — I noticed in tlie last 

 No. of the Cabinet, a reference to a Com- 

 mittee appointed in New York, to enquire 

 into the character and effects of certain 

 nianufaetured milk, which is not a little 

 complained of in this said city of Gotham. 

 Since the issuinn- of the Cabinet, I have 

 come across some remarks in the Farmer 

 and Mechanic, at the severity of which I 

 was not a little astonished : but I should be 

 still more so, could I entertain no doubt of 

 their justness. I send the extract, and hope 

 to see it in the Cabinet, not because I sus- 

 pect that we are imposed upon here with 

 any such abominations, but that we may be 

 on our guard, as it is too true, that what is 

 perpetrated in one city, may also be in an- 

 other. Adulteration of milk should be dis- 

 couraged and frowned upon, and reprobated 

 without benefit of clergy: no quarter should 

 be shown it. We take it ourselves and we 

 give it to our infants at their tenderest age, 



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and the idea is revolting, that we may pos- 

 sibly be administering to them a drugged — 

 a poisoned beverage, which we would not 

 offer to a decent cat, if we knew its compo- 

 sition. Honest men should be dealt with for 

 milk, and they should be paid a good price 

 for it. We want not even pure water added 

 to it; and if we did, we have our own hy- 

 drants. Excuse my earnestness, and believe 

 me, &LC. D. 



Philadelphia. 



Were a stranger perfectly unacquainted 

 with the various tricks and deceptions of 

 our city, to pass through the streets and 

 with all the other paraphenalia of the life- 

 movements and business of New York, no- 

 tice the number, appearance and inscriptions 

 on the thousands of milk wagons that are 

 constantly passing through our streets, he 

 would at once be struck with the idea, that 

 probably in no city in the world, the people 

 were so favoured with pure and wholesome 

 |milk as ours. We have vast numbers of ve- 

 hicles, many of which are handsomely paint- 

 ed covered wagons, conspicuously labelled 

 "Pure Orange County Milk," "Premium 

 Dairy," "Pure Country," "First Premium," 

 i"Bloomingdale Meadow," "Pure Milk from 

 lConnecticut,"&,c.,&c., together with nume- 

 jrous other attractive titles. Who uninitiated 

 in the nefarious arts of the venders, would 

 .suspect that four-fiflhs of these vehicles con- 

 'tain the most abominable and deleterious 

 'compound that ever disgraced, — we had al- 



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