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OCCASIONAL JOTTINGS.

By T. H. Snark, < X "I am no respeclor of persons or things." MILK—PURE MILK The infliction of substantial fines on culprits found guilty of adulterating and thereby seriously deteriorating the 'value to the human system of the "wholesome product of the cow, does not appear to (act as a deterrent to the ordinary milkvendor, aud-so it goes on. I have al-' ways labored under the impression that a milk-run was a bonanza; in fact, I do know men (good, honest fellows-to all appearances) who have retired after five or siv years' work. Of course, there is more substance-say, cream-in the milk irom.some cows, just as there is more water in strain vendors' "goods" than in others. It j s .a curious thine, too that the average person-por'haps I should say men—do not know what is pure milk, and if some enternrising scientist would only come along with a substitute or a kind, the average person wouldn't care a jot what it was composed of, but would "got away" with it just as cheerfully as he now does get away with the 'very, very thin" mixture one gets doled out (especially in the cities) at anything from 4d to 5d per quart. ' ° "How did all the water come to be in your can?" asked the Magistrate of a ■milk-vendor, in a case heard in a southern centre some time ago. The poor fellow looked "horribly innocent"; he was before an unsympathetic •limb of the law," and to have told the truth might have F lightened him of quite a bagful of his ill-gotten wealth He started off carefully: "It was a very wet morning, sir."

'•Well, what happened}" stormly asked His Worship, keeping a hard eye on the accused.

"I was wearing a broad-rimmed hat, and the water must have dropped off the hat into the can!"

*ou are fined £25 and costs, and you'd better purchase a hat with a brim t-'iat will not carry so much water."

The other day. in a North Island centre, a couple of milkmen were haled before the Bench for being "too liberal"— with the city water supply. There was no doubt about the adulteration. In one cose the proportion was one in six! Now, that is pretty good business. If it pays' an "honest" milkman to run a cart, etc., and lip earns a competency in anything from five to ten years, how long should it take the man who adds water at the rate of one eallon to each six gallons of milk to make his pile—or. boys from the schools, if the milkman added one quart of water to each six quarts of milk 'old daily a"d he had 125.J persons taking milk by the quart, how many callons of water will lie have sold in 12 months and what will be the vendor's profit (on the water) selling at 5d per quart? It might also he asked how many times a year ho could pay a rC-~0 fine and still be in pocket on his original stock—i.e, milk!

In (he case just noticed the plea was that, having left his open can outside all night and the elements having become somewhat damp, the water got into the can and—did the trick!

This incident so impressed itself upon my mind—l had some idea some time ago of netting some cows and some land somewhere and going into some town as a milk-vendor—that, in order to test the "value of the rainfall" in the milk business. I left in my garden on and Friday last an open one■"■•llon coffee-pot, and (everyone in New Plymouth knows how it rained for 24 hour". not rust a few hours) when I took up the in order to "anrre the '•'value" of the rainfall,l discavered there was only one-tenth ivater in the pot—the rest was "hot coffee"!

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Taranaki Daily News, 10 September 1918, Page 3

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OCCASIONAL JOTTINGS. Taranaki Daily News, 10 September 1918, Page 3

OCCASIONAL JOTTINGS. Taranaki Daily News, 10 September 1918, Page 3

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