EFFECT OF ODORS ON MILK.

Globe, Volume XXIV, Issue 2633, 14 September 1882, Page 4

EFFECT OF ODORS ON MILK.

The "Prairie Farmer*' has often called attention to the effeot of odors on milk, and especially to its sensitive character in this respect. Prof. Arnold, in the work, "American Dairying," Bays : " The London ' Milk Journal oitei instances where milk that has stood a short time in the presence of persons siok with typhoid fever, or bean handled by parties before fully recovered from small pox, rpread them diseases as effectually as if the persons themselves had been present. Scarlatina,measlesacd other contagiaus diseases have been spread in the same way, The peonliar smell of a cellar is indelibly impressed upon all the butter made from the milk standing is it. A few puff* from a pipe or a cigar will soent all the milk in the room, and a smoking lamp will soon do the same. A pail of milk standing ten minutes where it will take the soent of a strong smelling stable, or any other offensive odor, will imbibe a taint that will never leave it. A maker of gilt edged butter objects to cooling warm milk in the room where bis milk stands for the crcoa: to rise, because he says the odour escaping from the new milk, while cooling, is taken in by the other milk, and retained to the injury of his butter. This may seem like descending to little things, bat it mußt be remembered that it is the sum of such little things that determines whether the products of the dairy are to be sold at ooEt or below, or as a high prioed luxury. If the milk is to be converted into an article of the latter olass, it must be handled and kept in clean and sweet vessels, and must stand in pure fresh air, such as would be desirable and healthy for people to breathe.