MILK ADULTERATION IN ATHENS

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · May 21, 1902

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 28, No. 21.

MILK ADULTERATION IN ATHENS.

A FRENCH newspaper describes an ingenious method of adulteration practised in Athens. The residents have a penchant for goat's milk, and herds of these animals are led along the street by milk-sellers wearing long blouses with capacious sleeves. Their cry of “Gala! gala!” brings the housewife to the door, and she prudently demands that the goats shall be milked in her presence. This is done, but the milkman has in one hand the end of a thin tube, which runs up his sleeves and connects with an India rubber receptacle full of water, which is carried under his ample blouse. At each pressure of the fingers on the udder, there is a corresponding compression of the water sack, and milk and water flow side by side into the milk pail.