To the Editor of the "NonrH-Cuixa Dalny News."
Sin,—The local Chinese telegraph office recently wrote in the Remarks cola of one of the Hongkong telegrams addressed to a Shanghai governmental office: "Red Hand jinese". On being questioned, the telegraph office explained that "Red" stands for "Reduced Rates" and "Hand Chinese" stands for to a Chinese telegraph adding that the Remarks column is not for the reading of the public since it only concerns the telegraph people themselves.
But the authorities of that office would have avoided an unnecessary I wish to make it quite clear that it is the dairies that are graded, our Health Department are not yet in a position to grade the mill this is entirely in the hands of the dairymen, and as there is but one grade of milk to be considered, {pure milk as it comes from the cow, all dairies should be able to produce the same quality. Therefore a better quality of milk might be had from a grade B dairy, that is providing the milk has not been contaminated after being drawn! from the cow. The Acting Com-{missioner of Health agrees that no milk in Shanghai can be considered safe without sterilizing. We here see that all milk should be boiled or stevilizes good milk, to me he is a fool, but if he sterilizes bad milk he is a rogue, There is one benefit, however, in milk being sterile. ed, that is," if not all disposed of "today, it will keep until to-morrow. This cannot be done with fresh milk, Dairies T may mention are not graded according to the milk pr ducer (the cow) but according to the amour of machinery and plant installed.
As far as T know there are but {three grade A dairies in Shangh No experience, however, is requir-led in the art of dairying or cattle! rearing to hold an A grade licence One can be a shoemaker, tailor or baker; if, he has the necessary pay for the required equipment as laid down by the pure Milk Sup._ ply Commission, ie, machinery, jarly one can be'a grade A dairy. man, [We see advertised rade A milk from a grade A dairy. Grade A perhaps gives the powerful indueement to dairies of their grade to advertise, but as they are in minority by 97 per cent. there will have to be some greater inducement to dairymen to comply with the conditions imposed under grade "A" Licence.
Dairies that but a few years ago were erected under Municipal Permit, and approved by the Commissioner of Public Health, have under the new rules of the' Commission been condemned under the penalty of cancellation of the licence. This alone has driven some of the dairymen out of business, although the same dairy is still running under new management, The Pure Milk commission was started by a few, who contrived to gain but one object and failed; other dairymen, with experience, were not consulted nor wanted on the commission. The commission however, in the end gained but little in the way of sanitation, but! caused no end of inconvenience and expense, for which the consumers unknowingly are now footing the! Dill, by being supplied with a less-quantity for their money.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.