23 AUGUST 1873, Page 2

There has been a long controversy in. the Times as

to whether milk can be poisoned by feeding.cows on grass improved by liquid sewage. Mr. Ray Smee says it can, and all interested in sewage farms say it cannot. We leave the decision to the Lancet, but would just ask a question or two. Is not Swiss milk specially good? Are not cows in Switzerland fed on grass improved by liquid manure ? If this is not the case, why do gwies grass fields, say round Lucerne, smell ser