SOCIETY MEETINGS. 
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tion is going to do far more than we ever dreamed of. We 
were always accused by the politicians of looking for a job, 
especially during the hard times, that horses were cheap and 
we had to look for other fields of labor. I just throw out this 
suggestion that if you have such a society here, try and secure 
an invitation to give them a popular talk, and you will not be 
sorry. 
Apropos of Mr. Netherton’s reply to Bro. Wilson, I wish to 
say that I do not believe the typhoid, diphtheria or tubercular 
germs are conveyed to the milk so much by adulteration as by 
the use of improperly cleaned vessels and the existence of un¬ 
sanitary conditions around the dairy. 
Dr. Netherton : I desire to say further that I have been 
treating cattle in several of these dairies, and in one case which 
I recall I was called to see a cow which had calved, I think, 
the week before. She still had a retention of the placenta, 
and they were saving the milk of that cow. There was such 
an odor from the animal that it was difficult to stay in the stall 
where she was. They had a well within io feet of the stable. 
They have 200 cows in the stable and it was at this well that 
they washed their milk vessels. I saw them do that, and in 
all probability the water which was used to adulterate the milk 
was obtained from that same cistern. Last year was a very 
hard year on the dairymen in this city as well as others. The 
cows were not calving and the milk supply was short, and the 
fact of adulteration was not denied, but if they used that water 
to adulterate their milk certainly everything was favorable to 
the propagation of the germs of disease and their dissemination 
among the consumers of the milk. 
Dr. Moore: I do not know that I can add anything to 
what has been said in regard to this paper. I certainly appreci¬ 
ate it very much, and agree with the doctor fully in his state¬ 
ments. I think that ofttimes milk becomes contaminated even 
though fairly good sanitary conditions prevail in the dairy and 
care is bestowed upon the cans. The cooling boxes are often 
sufficiently contaminated, and scarlet and typhoid fever may 
exist in the family, and the milk may become contaminated in 
that way. I do not think we could very well say anything to 
unnecessarily alarm the public. Of course it mi ght cause some 
people to say we are alarmists, but to me the matter is so im¬ 
portant and covers so much territory, is so essential to the wel¬ 
fare of the people, that it would be hard to say anything that 
would alarm the people beyond what they should be alarmed. 
