Milk For The People

There exists on Long IsJand, near Brooklyn, several manufaclorics of Milk - the progress of which should be known. One 01 those dairies covers a space GOO fe'et front by 300deep, carelully fenced in, so as to be as private as possible, ('the business of the people being to drink the milk, not to know how it is made) in which encloscure 400 cows are kept the year round. Those cows are fed on the refuse slops of the whiskey distillers, and it is given to them wurm. Each barrel costs six cents, but being adulterated with water and cheap feed, brings the price still less. Such is the fondness of cows for this vile compound, that after having fed upon it a week or more, their appetites become so depraved that they wilJ take no other food. The result is that their milk-producing organs are stimulated to a wonderful degree; theyyield enormously butsoon become diseased ; their gums ulcérate, their teeth drop out, and their breath becomes feiid. Though thus diseased, they do not fall away in flesli, but "on the contrary puffup, and bloat to an appearance of great fatness ; their joints become stiffso that they cannot lic down, and they rarely or never come out alive. Bad as tliis is, ihe milk is afterwards mixed wilh ïnolnsses, waler and whiting, and then sold to the people of New York for pure milk ! Any one may observe the 36 vans that carry t around every morning. It is of course very injurious to children, who use it in much greater quantities than adults. Some idea may be formed of the profi' made by computing one barrel of slop to a cow, costingsix pence and the milk produccd being eighty cents! These facts can be vouched for, almost