Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 September 1892 — Milk a Microbe Killer. [ARTICLE]

Milk a Microbe Killer.

Dr. Frcudcnrich has found, by experiments, that the cholera bacillus, if put into milk drawn fresh from the cow, dies in an hour, and in five hours if put into fresh goat’s milk. The bacillus of typhoid fever takes twentv-four hours to die in cow’s milk, and five hours in goat’s milk. Other microbes suffer a like fate in varying periods. But he has also found that milk maintained for an hour at a temperature of 231 degrees Fahrenheit, loses its power to kill microbes—a statement which is of interest in the face of the common teaching which makes the purification of milk depend upon its being boiled Again, the bactericidal properties of milk become weaker the older it gets, for cow’s milk after four days, and goat’s milk after five days, ceases to have any effect upon micro-organism. The match trust is in undisputed control; and it is the consumer who isin a-box.■ ■"* • i . s