The result of feeding children on this pernicious article of diet is to generate scrofula, skin diseases, rickets, diarrhœa, cholera infantum, and consumption, or marasmus—wasting away.
PURE MILK. WATERED MILK.
“WHAT’S IN THE MILK?”
Some children in cities literally starve to death on this sort of milk.
Starch in milk may be detected by putting a drop of iodine into a glass of milk, when the starch will give off a blue color; or, by boiling such milk, it will thicken. Animals’ brains, which are sometimes mixed in milk, may be detected with the microscope. Soda is often put in cans of milk that are to be transported, to keep the milk sweet.
We once saw a milkman picking a pair of mice out of his big milk can; but these little accidents, with hairs and dirt from the animals, are not to be mentioned, in view of the above greater facts of “what’s in the milk”?
During the late run on the —— Bank, New York, a gentleman said that a Westchester milkman named Thompson W. Decker had purchased sixteen thousand dollars worth of books at a discount, not because he wanted to speculate, as he was a millionnaire, but to show he had confidence in the institution, and wished to enhance its credit. Profitable business!
The Cow with One Teat.