The Waipukurau Press. Friday, March 23, 1906. FRESH MILK.

Waipukurau Press, Issue 29, 23 March 1906, Page 2

The Waipukurau Press. Friday, March 23, 1906. FRESH MILK.

—o — The other day at Sydney, the nature and properties of milk, its use as a food, the best method of keeping it, and how long it should be kept, with particulars of its tendency to deteriorate rapidly, and the evil effects on the human system if used as food, after it has gone wrong, were ail enlarged upon by Professor Anderson Stuart. And it was in the Arbitration Court—not before a class of students that the information was given. The State Children’s Board was endeavoring to show that the public health would suffer if the milk carters got w hat they asked for—a lessening of deliveries to once per day on certain davs in every week, The Professor laid down as a broad principle that no milk should be consumed after the next milking, which would mean, of course, that it ought not to be kept more than twelve hours. He was emphatic in the assertion that milk began to change for the worse from the moment it left the teat, and that no treatment or process was able to prevent its downward career, though cleanliness and coolness would retard it. Boric acid and its compounds were bad themselves, and only bid the deterioration, and no process seemed to meet the case. The Professor declared for fresh milk and fresh milk only, and this from healthy cows and under cleanly conditions. Such testimony emphasises the great importance of having this indispensable article of food supplied regularly and at comparatively short intervals.