110 CONFERENCE ON MILK PROBLEMS 



and there will be trouble. If it is in good health, it can stand 

 it, perhaps, but it cannot now. That is what accounts for the 

 great mortality of infants in the summer months, when these 

 things are most likely to take place. Remove them and you 

 stop the mortality. There is a great mortality among babies 

 in the months of July, August and September. If you will try 

 looking after the milk supply and giving them fresh milk, 

 unputrid milk you can bring that mortality down to that of 

 the other months. 



Now, it is the bacteria getting into the milk that causes the 

 putrefaction. You will say, perhaps, that this does not hap- 

 pen very often. Now, there are places where you can go and 

 see where it happens. Those of you who have visited dairies 

 where they receive milk and send it out to their consumers, 

 have seen all sorts of methods of getting this dirt out. It is 

 surprising what they get out sometimes, on absorbent cotton, 

 and screens of various kinds. You would be astonished at the 

 dirt that you can scrape off from the inside of a can after cen- 

 trifuging. Dirt, manure, hairs, pus, mucus and all such stuff 

 gathers right on the inside of this centrifuge. That is the 

 material that comes out of the milk. Now, it does not matter 

 whether the cows are well taken care of or not, that is the sort 

 of thing you see. Now, we have in our Province a very active 

 agricultural college. They are trying to improve the quality 

 of the cheese that is produced in certain districts. In certain 

 districts where things are terrible, a cheese is produced in large 

 quantities. They have had inspectors there for years, trying 

 to show the farmers how to produce good, clear milk. After 

 years, they have produced what is ordinarily considered good 

 milk. But go into one of those factories when they centrifuge 

 out fifteen hundred pounds of cream, and see what you get out 

 of the centrifuge, after all the precautions have been taken. 

 I have seen cases of that kind, where they took the stuff out in 

 a scoop shovel, and put it into the furnace. That was called 

 good milk, and it was good milk, as you see milk better milk 

 than you get in the city here. It was produced under the 

 very best conditions. 



You know, the whiteness of milk covers a multitude of sins, 

 I was going to say. It covers them up and you cannot see 

 them, and you conclude that there isn't very much in it. But 



