Milk Factories and Cattle Diseases.

Pahiatua Herald, Volume V, Issue 521, 12 July 1897, Page 4

Milk Factories and Cattle Diseases.

Mi A. lhisck, well-known in Tara wiki, recently returned from a \;se t" Bonn lark. A correspondent ! ru 'i,ls mo a eli|i ; 'inpt (vmltui by Mr B ck from h Weekly New*, mi l it ks that it b? rt printed in the Star’s columns. This is what Mr Busch say s :—“ It lias 1 * n proved that the spread of nil infectious since the inauguration of dairy factories, and that this must continue fo be the ease under nresent circiii'istm.ccs we shall understand whin we get to the root of the evil. The da ry factories, or any place win re milk is collected from two or more dairy farm?, are the places for examination, but the greater the quantity of milk collected in one place the grt ator the chance of spreading disease It i, tbrough that now indispensable invention, * the separator,' that the •_ rcatesl lui chi< f is done. If the fuctmy is up,died by twenty farms which, 1 take i!, wmild be the averuke number .;q>i»lving milk to I the farms has from ten to fifteen cows then the milk from all these c avs will be mixed, and, in the event r f a few harmful bacteria being present in any < n • of the so supplies, the entire milk may be infected. As the temperature at which the milk is passed through the separator is favorable to the development of harmful bacteria, the consequence is that the disc a-• germs are distributed to the various farms in the skimmilk. The farmers feed it to their Culvi ; or pigs, or, perhaps it is used in the household. In the first case the risk is run of the animals being infected ; and in the s.cond, there is a danger of the consumers contracting the di-ea e, directly or indirectly tliroueh eating the meat of the infi cted animals. Our Government ha followed the lead of the government in other countries, and has taken up the question of infectious di < u e among t. cattle, and a con hi'lerab '- number of tin s© suffering di-ea • have b< en d< troyid. In thi way we certainly get rid of the • Uacked animals, but, we do not get nearer the eradication < f disea::* s in our stock, or d. cr.a . the diseases in our population. The only way to mateiiilly d cr* a • the contagious di.-ea • . slid ultimat* lv to C:r:i«licate the e, is to feed the calves and pigs with milk free from di ea.-' - germs, which can only he lone when e\erv factory, creamery, or wi’k collector pa I . j. IT”di g-i. bai.r., and coining it down :■ ’ : , r. . . lion of all milk i ' of the greatest imp. ant eto man, and it ought to he mad compel my by the public, is cur... «t o ! -atidactorilv. lifthis tli nnmlM r of ' .nr childri i. and ours Ives. As re •. U lie Ik d. hv. r- d to tin duirv « •• i » m i t .pon ih j nst.f urising lx mg . :■ hv lipidatiii'g it in their con tiv.cts.” 1 tawi ru h tar.