Chalk And Water In Milk

The daily city papers often cali attentiou to the quality of the mille furnished to city custouicrs. Tliere is abur.dant reason fbr doing this, and ihey not too freuuently insist that milk mut-t be furnished just as it coraes from tbe cow. But these articles lose tuuch of tlieir force by ioiplyio)?, indeed .ome of them directly asserting, that a mixturo of chalk aüd water is served in place of milk. This 'is absurd ; the most skilied manipulator can make do mixture of any foim of chalk that will not be more dense than ordinary milk, from whioh tbe chalk will not coiflpletely settle, upon tandiug for a few hours. We doubt ifthere was ever a pint of milk sold in New York ('ily In which chalk was used U an orati I ii IjoikIuii, milk and otlict adulteratioDH wire earried tü such uu extcnt hnt parlmment had the matter investigarti muñe ycars uno. Dr. IIusmII, wlu was ifficinlly oonoMted with iImm examinatoas, and bai probablj exMuined more muuIo o(' in ÜR ilisn :uiy "tlnT pcraon, ay ot' chalk and lar(ll in milk, wliilc he aitmits that ihcy ïuay bo vcry rarely uscd, hat, "it Uas not hap]cncd to oursolvos (o uout tlee substanoe iu milk." Wanklyn, also ui London, in tbc taost recent wort in the "Analysis of Milk," says nothing about the ocourrenoo of chalk. The faot is, the most scrioua adultcration ot' milk is with water. Kosides the addition of water, milk is impoverislied by the abstractioa of nu, These to, the taking off of creain and the puttins in water, are the worst hat happen to city milk, and these are jad onough. It diverts attention from hese real troublcs, to talk about improbable, if not impossible, chalk and water." -