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illiteracy have stood in the way of such a simple and 

 obvious reform as this. Furthermore in these silo pits 

 a great deal of vegetation which the cattle will not eat 

 normally can be turned into succulent fodder. The 

 students of the Allahabad Agricultural Institute 

 counted and named twenty-two weeds which the cattle 

 would not eat green which were put into the farm silo 

 pit, and at the end of two months were fed to the cattle 

 and the dairy herd increased in milk production. 



In the Old Testament a truly delectable land is de- 

 scribed as "A land flowing with milk and honey." 

 Modern India has the same conception of physical and 

 material blessedness. Yet as one gets to know India and 

 sees its multitudes of cattle, one is struck by the great 

 difficulty of getting reasonably pure milk. Dr. H. H. 

 Mann of Poona, Mr. Carruth of Madras, Dr. Joshi of 

 Bombay, Major Matson of Calcutta have all investigated 

 city milk supplies in India and each speak of the very 

 few samples of milk taken from the milk sellers that 

 were pure, most of them adulterated from twenty to 

 seventy-five per cent, with water. Now if the water with 

 which the milk was adulterated were only pure water not 

 so much harm would result, but often the water used to 

 adulterate the milk is unclean. It is likely to be con- 

 taminated with sewage and is very dangerous to health. 

 Many serious attacks of dysentery, cholera and typhoid 

 have been traced to milk adulterated with dirty water. 

 Because of the difficulty of obtaining pure milk in India 

 the military authorities put in their own dairies to 

 supply the troops with safe milk and of better quality. 

 The milk is supplied to the troops in bottles, sealed with 

 the standard cap and seal made in Chicago. It is the 

 only bottle fastener I have ever seen that the Indian 



