SOUR MILK CRAZE.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 814, 11 May 1910, Page 8

SOUR MILK CRAZE.

Writing in "Tho Dairy," Mr. Primrose M'.Connell remarks that ■ medical men

liave lately started a craze regarding the beneficial effects of drinking sour milk, .'and the attention of the . public }ias been called to this by its evil effects on a society lady in London. It seems that a special microbe has been caught in.Bulgaria—where the people, drink sour milk and live to great ages—and by putting "this. into, sterilised■ milk .a speciaLkind of sourness has been developed akin to the' "Kephir" or "Koumiss" of tlio Caucasians, which ,is ..considered by certain- medical' authorities to be of great, medicinal .. . and . nourishing: value. In the.' face of the', fact that orowds of medical men have been vilifying milk because it is full of, all sorts of harmless .microbes, and because thousands of. babies' Have 'died in town on account of'tho milk .they did' not drink, this recent development is very interesting. To a Scot, 'like the present writer, who has been - accustomed to. drink sour buttermilk by i the score of .gallons, , the whole thing.reads like a big joke. Thoso of us who have been "raised" on this kind of food cannot understand why the doctors should not have found.: this out long ago, .•and why .others : of: them are,doing, their level best to : prevent the use' of milk containing microbes 'equally harmless with the Bulgarian ones. Further, why should it be necessary to adopt the use of Metchnikoff's Bulgarian "culture," when soured buttermilk is better food, . ipore easily made; and its-value iand safety- proved by generations of consumers in Scotland and Ireland ? o :