Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 January 1910 — COWS IN THE LAP OF LUXURY. [ARTICLE]

COWS IN THE LAP OF LUXURY.

Extraordinary Patna Taken to Provide Pare Milk for Babies. The milk which Is furnished in the seven depots of the New York milk commUtee to the babies of the tenements Is what all country milk could a,")d should be. The cows on the farm supplying the committee are taken care of as if a cow were the rarest of animals and likely soon to join the dodo and disappear entirely. They live in a St. Regis sort of : barn, the concrete floors and iron and glass walls of which are kept as clean as a parlor. Twice dally the cow stalls are sterilized with live steam. As a precaution against dust they keep no hay or other food in the barn, but rand it In as it is needed, by means of a trolley system. Every day the cows are inspected by a physician, and any cow not in perfect condition is Immediately removed from the herd. Twice a month chemists analyze the milk to make sure that it is fully up to the standard of richness and purity, Before being milked each cow ih groomed and sprayed with, pure spring water by a man who has been medically examined and has just had a bath and put on a perfectly clean white suit. A second man dries the cow with sterilized single service towels, after which the white-clad milkers, sitting on spotless metal stools, perform their duties. - The milk is strained through sterilized cotton pads into sterilized cans and cooled in a dustproof room, which no one except the white-clad workers is. ever permitted to enter. Here the milk Is bottled, sealed and packed for its journey to the city. Within 30 hours after the milk is packed it Is delivered at the doors of the milk committee’s model laboratory in New York. Five men work in the laboratory sterilizing and filling the bottles. In reality they are filling prescriptions, for every baby has its food especially designated by a skilled physician, the prescriptions varying from week to week according to-the age and condition of the child. These men In their spotless white suits and caps work in a speckless room that is sterilized with steam every morning, preparing food after the most scientific methods and according to physicians’ prescriptions, not ' for Infant millionaires, but for babies of the tenements.—Hampton’s Magazine.