Milk In Two Grades In London

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 13, Issue 53, 14 February 1949, Page 3

Milk In Two Grades In London

According to information given

by a resident of London at present in Dunedin, milk in the Empire capital is sold in two grades, Jersey milk is sold as first grade at 7d

a pint, other milk, as second grade, retailing at 6d a pint. The visitor expressed the view that if three was any criticism of the present local practice of mixing all milk—and she believed that was the case—it might be worth while considering selling, it in two grades as in London. • There was this to be said for the practice, the speaker said: It encouraged farmers to produce only the best. Cream in London had been unprocurable for many years.»' MASTITIS AND AGE A report that older cattle are more susceptible to certain types of mastitis than younger cows was challenged by two Californian research workers at the recent American Veterinary Medical Association convenaion in San Francisco. In recent years some leaders have taken the view that as a cow gets older a change occurs in the mammary gland, making it more susceptible to infection. However, Drs. Robert Ormsbee and O. W. Schalm, of the .University of California, Berkeley, reported that they had studied 629 cows exposed in two outbreaks of mastitis and found “no significant relationship between susceptibility and age.”