Rensselaer Journal, Volume 11, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 May 1902 — CLEVER ADULTERATION OF MILK [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

CLEVER ADULTERATION OF MILK

American Methods Would Seem Slow to the Athens Men. A French newspaper describes an ingenious method of milk adulteration practiced in Athens. The residents have a penchant for goats’ milk, and herds of these animals are led along the street by milk sellers wearing long blouses with capacious sleeves. Their cry of “Gala! gala!” brings the housewife to the door, and she prudently demands that the goats shall be milked in her presence. This is done, but the milkman has in one hand the end of a thin tube which runs up his sleeves and connects with an India rubber receptacle full of water, which is carried under his ample blouse. At each pressure of the fingers on the udder there is a corresponding compression of the water sack, and milk and flow side by side into the milk pail.

Nearly 200 years before Watt saw his mother’s kettle steaming Giovanni Branca, an Italian, invented the crude steam engine here pictured.