-MILK
[To the Editor of the SPECTATOB.1 Sin, --As a milk producer who makes every effort to insure that his product is clean and wholesome, I was interested. in a letter on milk in your issue of November 7th.
Your correspondent asserts that milk may contain bacteria, may haye preservatives and adulterations added to it by both farmer and retailer, and is generally contaminated by the poor old cow herself (let us hope an innocent party in this ghastly conspiracy) through alkaloids from the poisonous foods she has to eat. Milk having been condemned in this comprehensive manner, we are recommended- in the last paragraph of the letter to eat plenty of fresh butter as being one of the sources of the necessary vitamins and organic' minerals, and to keep our teeth.
Are we to assume then, that the process of turning milk into butter eliminates all the horrors enumerated, or better still converts them into the' necessary vitamins and organic minerals, or would it be a fairer assumption that attempts to keep the teeth lead to loss of memory ?—I am, Sir, &e.,
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