The extreme sensitiveness of milk in the absorption of taint
from the atmosphere, or any substance with which it comes in
contact, ought to be thoroughly understood by all persons
engaged in handling it, but, we believe, that but few
comparatively are alive to the true facts of the case. I
herewith present several paragraphs clipped from journals of
recent date:

"There are seventy-five cases of typhoid fever in the town of
Port Jarvis. Dr. McDonald attributes the spread of the disease
to the use of milk from the farm of Mrs. Thomas Cuddebach, in
whose family there have been several typhoid cases, holding that
the milk conveyed the disease germs. Nearly all of the parties
now sick had used milk from the farm."

"A dairyman from Dundee has been apprehended and fined for
allowing his wife and daughter to milk cows and assist in the
sale of milk, after they had been engaged in nursing a child
suffering from scarlet fever. No less than nineteen cases of
fever, four of which resulted fatally, were traced to this act
of carelessness."

With these facts in view, how can it be expected that any amount
of diligence on the part of a cheese-maker can atone for the
unpardonable sin committed, day after day, by the heedless and
unobserving patrons, of leaving a can of freshly drawn milk
standing all night in an unwholesome barn or yard, until it has
absorbed a whole family of pestilential odors, and then to carry
it to the factory to corrupt and poison everything with which it
comes in contact.

Some may suppose it a mere theory to speak of a condition of
things in which abuses of this character can not be found, but
during an experience of five years as cheese instructor, in the
Province of Ontario, during which I superintended the making of
cheese in about 400 different factories, and during the last
year inspected the milk from about 65,000 cows, the property of
about 7,000 dairymen, I occasionally made up vats in which there
was no discoverable taint and which, I was pretty certain, came
from the farms of well drilled, well posted dairymen, and, from
a circumstance of this character, I am led to the conclusion
that what has been done once can be done again, and I make such
facts a text upon which I found my plea for more thorough
co-operation and diligent painstaki