If a cow
is hurried or worried, or chilled or heated, it stops her milk yield.
And bad usage poisons it. John says you can't take a stick and strike a
cow across the back, without her milk being that much worse, and as for
drinking the milk that comes from a cow that isn't kept clean, you'd
better throw it away and drink water. When I was in Chicago, my
sister-in-law kept complaining to her milkman about what she called the
'cowy' smell to her milk. 'It's the animal odor, ma'am,' he said, 'and
it can't be helped. All milk smells like that.' 'It's dirt,' I said,
when she asked my opinion about it. 'I'll wager my best bonnet that that
man's cows are kept dirty. Their skins are plastered up with filth, and
as the poison in them can't escape that way it's coming out through the
milk, and you're helping to dispose of it.' She was astonished to hear
this, and she got her milkman's address, and one day dropped in upon
him. She said that his cows were standing in a stable that was
comparatively clean, but that their bodies were in just the state that I
described them as living in. She advised the man to card and brush his
cows every day, and said that he need bring her no more milk.
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