The Problem of Pure Milk.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 26 July 1910, Page 4

The Problem of Pure Milk.

Mr J. H. Burton, the county secretary for agriculture for Somerset, Knghvnd, writing on the siibjex.it of t'he 3 per cent limit of butter-fnfti in milk, says:— "The trend of all recent investigation undoubtedly is to show that at certain seasons of the year, and 'under certain conditions, "the milk of perfectly healthy cows, properly housed and fed, may, ami frequently does, fall below tho legal limit of 3 per ceivt of butter-fat. It is interesting lt>o note that the results obtained in he Nortli of Engknd and in Scotland have beeivbonne out most thoroughly in tho Somerset trials, in connection with which no Ires than 1000 samples were taken. I'Jie idea field by the general public 'appears to he that a cow is an lautomat.ic. machine, inito which tome can puit in a certain amount of food of known com position with the sure knowledge that one will get milk of a correspondinglv high or low composition, but siicli an idoa is entirelv tallncinus. Manv cases of Imrdsliip have, undoiibltodly, nrisen whem perfectly honest men liavo lieen fined tor selligtliorouirlily genuine milk though falling below the standard! of •■> pw cent."