"There's chalk in the milk," is all nonsense. Chalk will not remain in
solution, but will settle. Hence milk is not adulterated with chalk. Milk
is reduced by water, and if the body is again made up which the water has
reduced, it is done by adding corn starch, or calves' brains!
_Pure Milk contains_
Water, 862.8
Solid particles, 137.2
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To parts 1000
Butter, 43.8
Sugar, 52.7
Caseine, 38.0
Saline, 2.7
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Solid matter, 137.2
_Grass-fed Cows' Milk._
Water, 868
Solid, 132
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To parts 1000
Butter, 44
Sugar, 46
Caseine, 39
Salt, 3
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Solid matter, 132
_Swill Milk of New York._
Water, 930
Solid particles, 70
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To parts 1000
Butter, 18
Sugar, 8
Caseine, 34
Salt, 10
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Solid matter, 70
[Illustration: SWILL MILK (MAGNIFIED).]
The reader will perceive by these quotations (from Dr. Samuel R. Percy's
report to the Academy of Medicine, New York), that it requires twice as
much swill milk to give the same amount of nourishment as of a pure
article. Furthermore, the swill milk is diseased, and, when magnified,
appears as represented in the illustration. It contains corrupt matter,
and pieces of _diseased udder_, with broken-down rotten globules.
The result of feeding children on this pernicious article of diet is to
generate scrofula, skin diseases, rickets, diarrhoea, cholera infantum,
and consumption, or marasmus--wasting away.
[Illustration: PURE MILK.]
[Illustration: WATERED MILK.]
[Illustration: "WHAT'S IN THE MILK?"]
Some children in cities literally starve to death on this sort of milk.
Starch in milk may be detected by putting a drop of iodine into a glass of
milk, when the starch will give off a blue color; or, by boiling such
milk, it will thicken. _Animals' brains_, which are sometimes mixed in
milk, may be detected with the microscope. Soda is often put in cans of
milk that are to be transported, to keep the milk sweet.
We once saw a milkman _picking a pair of mice out of his big milk can_;
but these little accidents, with hairs and dirt from the animals, are not
to be mentioned, in view of the above greater facts of "what's in the
milk"?
During the late run on the ---- Bank, New York, a gentleman said that a
Westchester milkman named Thompson W. Decker had purchased sixteen
thousand dollars worth of books at a discount, not because he wanted to
speculate, as he was a millionnaire, but to show he had confidence in the
institution, and wished to enhance its credit. Profitable business!