PROPOSED DAIRY REGULATIONS.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXIX, Issue 245, 13 October 1908, Page 2

PROPOSED DAIRY REGULATIONS.

CTo the EdftorJ Sir, — In my last lefcter I referred to Borne of tbe proposed regulations, and asked "B2da" some questions -which be conveniently pays ao attention to, aid starts out on a, crusade for pure milk. Had 'be. done so only in >his first article I should have raised no question. I also am anxious for a pue thHlt supply, 'bnt at present there ds no known means of securing this. He goes of all places to ■New York -for statistics-rihe. place where the almighty dollars and Tammany reign supreme," and where; if ■either or "both ■were behind the milk trust, the figures are not worth the rink whki printed tßein. Even if they -were as reliable as those published, say, of j&iickiaad. . they prove nothing, for this reason: ?few York and other cities are liable to be •visited By what is known as a heat wave, and whenever the .thermometer reaches & certain, point,. infantSe mortality foliage suit, .until the cooler weather ailives; and if this heat wave is more intense in one year than another, it "would j easily account for the difference shown in .the £gnres. Again, it is. well established that in. periods of commercial depression the bafries al-ways suffer, because there is so little money to imy even impure mflk, and- starvatioin makes cad ihavoc. With even impure milk a baby might lire, but without any milk baby must die. These factors must always be considered in connection with, such 6tatisiacs. Ineideniaily I may say that -I visited New York once in July and once in August, asid have some knowledge of wha* I state. To get back to the regulations, however, /the trouble with them is that they will dot establish a pure nalk supply Science has not yet got -so far as to say when tuberculosis begins, and is only when a certain development is reached, and the same may be said of the symotic diseases. One great scientist declares year by year that he can find no proof tka.t bovine tuberculosis can be cooum&nicated to man. while another thinks -fizat raider f:;—raring conditions it is just possflde. W&"te these differ, though, "Hilda" is quite certain, though on his own confession he cannot do & simple calculation. He goes on to say eome&ing about a lank balance, a thing ' ■whVci dairymen have heard of, but few 1 Siave seen. Probably he meaaa "ways! and mcaaa/T send» if sp^-Psy__«fdj: is tbet I ■■srifhcH'.t the mane w> regßlithju cut be earrfc-a -s*t, jea matter tear the ky^wuet]

or "Hilda" reads .the -word reasonable.' If "Kikl-a" has any knowledge of anything •whereby pure milk may be produced for Auckland, Jet irim declare it bere, and let New . York and -other places meantime , ■work out their own salvation. At come • time let imn bear in mind that that is, only a small portion of the milk prodraced, and that i3ie great bulk k metre or * . less jthe proce» of manufacture into butter and cheese.— • I *mj etc«j r - - G.- P. EWDfG. Wlhangarata, October 10,, 1908.