PICS ON SKIM MILK.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 144, 12 March 1908, Page 2

PICS ON SKIM MILK.

"ALMOST SURE" TO-BE TUBERCULOUS

This terrible verdict 13 pronounccd by Mr W. J. Kennedy and his associates in soniu investigations on- the ; offect of • feeding tuberculous to pigs,,- conducted for ■ the State of- lowa, U.S.A.;. v; ;: -'y The' 1 ' 'Experiment '.of 'the ' United ; States thus . Sumsup:- the ■ report Sjf: the - investigators:—'Tho experiments recorded in. this' liullctiii' (lo'wa:.>Stati6ri''Bulletin .92) ,wero undertaken for the purpose ordetermining ■ the» effect';' of 'fcedinc 1 ; '6n skim milk containing tubercle bacilli; as compared' with' - pastouriscd- ; skim - milk;'' used' - in; -the'' expenriiont'-riumborcd f 4OJ" and wore 'divided into four equal lots. --. Two lots' received ..pasteuri3od oii - pasture -and-tho. other in a- dry.yard: " The oilier tw'.j 'lots.received.tuberculous 'milkj orio bri'-pas-ture' arid the-'other; m a dijy yardi : -vAI( of tho: pigs -which were fed on-tuberculous ! mjlk' becamo' infected,- and- also two of-the l -pigs which' receivod; pasteurised milk. : 'It .appear. that tuberculosis lis: riot readily spread ataitmc" pigs; by more proximity of disease to healthv anipials.-;i;.Theauthors { conclude •• that • tuberculous milk :is almost surb:',to' ■ infect ' pigs, while milk .-pasteurised .temperature:of' 200 dbgr.ebs: JF.;is a- safe food.. -Pigs confined in:.cleari> dry yards aro apparently 110 mor-y susceptible..to -tuberculosil than tfhosb .• which ■ are kept.at pasture." '

This, isa;..tbrrible.'question,'-;this -one oftuberculosis amonq; cows. , In. some parts, of America oyer half., tho cows supplying -mil'i to ,theJ cities estimated-to bo tuberculous. i.vln' .the;' px'pbrimcnt, just., referred toi all. the pigs, that- drank such- milk becann tuberculous..'.'How' many, thercforo, of the American i babies becomo tuberculous also ? s Or how many Now Zealand ' babifis can attribute their intestinal and ".their premature deaths to milk • from cows which are diseased?,. ■■