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the effect of the digestive flavor of that article from your view- 

 point. Something is set before you that you do not hke, you may 

 eat it as a matter of politeness or because you feel that you have to 

 eat something, but you do not relish it and your digestive organs 

 do not digest it as they would an article that you like. 



Dirt in Milk. 



There is frequently more dirt in freshly drawn milk, most 

 of it fine particles of litter and manure which falls into the pails 

 from the body of the cow. Milk should be strained at once, or 

 better still milked into pails covered with straining cloths, but 

 even with these precautions, some dirt may be present. Of 

 course^ the amount varies wi^^ the cow and its surrounding's. 

 Under ideal dairy conditions only very small quantities are 

 found, while milk from untidy establishments may contain 

 enough in a quart to form a noticeable sediment. Milk with 

 enough dirt to be visable indicates an untidy dairy and should not 

 be tolerated for it should be remembered that the visable dirt 

 does not tell the whole story as some of the manure dissolves 

 and that is no longer visable. 



IVIlIk As the Possible Carrier of Disease. 



Disease germs may get into the milk either directly from 

 a diseased cow or indirectly from an infected person, from pol- 

 luted water, or in some similar way. The most dreaded disease 

 which may come from cows is tuberculosis. It is certain the 

 germ which causes the disease, does sometimes exist in the milk 

 from tuberculosis animals; whether or not persons who drink 

 such milk may become infected by it is extremely hard to prove. 

 There are many other possible sources of contagion, and the 

 disease develops so slowly that by the time it is recognized, it 

 is usually too late to trace the cause. Nevertheless, there is quite 

 enough evidence that the disease may be carried in this way to 

 make the use of milk from tuberculosis cows too dangerous to 



