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ment can be readily detected on ante-mortem examination and 
they all affect the quality of the meat. 
Education is a great factor in inspectors’ work. Those who 
never see the flesh prepared for food would be horrified to view 
certain parts that are perfectly wholesome. 
A man may think there is no harm in the consumption of 
tuberculous milk or meat, as no case can be directly proven 
where such milk or meat caused the disease in the human. In 
this case they will not accept circumstantial evidence but those 
same persons would be the twelfth man of a jury willing to incar¬ 
cerate a man at Jackson the rest of his natura llife on circumstan¬ 
tial evidence alone, and that no stronger in one case than another. 
Experiment has shown that pigs fed on tuberculosus milk will 
contract the disease, and can we think the human family are 
less susceptible to such diseases than our friend—the hog ? 
Milk is another important factor in the food supply of our 
people. Some of us may be vegetarians and refrain from the 
use of meat, but all of us got our start in life by that one factor 
milk, this being the only product of nature that combines all 
elements requisite to a healthy condition. Milk is the natural 
food of all infants and invalids. Being consumed at that period 
of life when the body is so susceptible to disease, how careful 
ought we to be to see that our milk supply is pure and whole¬ 
some. 
Milk is the most universal product in use. It is estimated 
that it would take a tank twenty-five feet high and covering oue 
acre to hold the supply used by our people in one single year. 
Previous to the year 1870 milk was not known to carry the 
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germs of disease, but it is now proven beyond a shadow of a 
doubt that milk is one of the disseminators of disease. The 
temperature just below the body temperature, the most natural 
one at which milk is kept, is the temperature best suited for the 
growth and multiplication of germs. Normal milk from a 
healthy cow is free from bacteria, but there are many ways in 
which infection may take place. The animal itself, the hands 
of the milker, and the dust of the stable are each liable to share 
