Vintage news abstract that made me chuckle.
LINCOLN DAILY NEWS, Monday, January 31, 1916:
page ten...
ANOTHER VIEW OF ORDINANCE.
FARMER POINTS OUT PRACTICAL DIFFICULTIES INVOLVED.
A.C. BENNETT, a farmer living at Milford, Neb., has written to the
mayor and city council regarding the milk ordinance. He is alarmed
over the recent prosecutions and wants to know if it will be safe to
send another can of milk to the city. He says in part:
"I am an ordinary poor renter and am trying to make an honest living
and trying at all times to live in accordance with the laws. I am
also a shipper of milk to Lincoln and I take a daily paper and it
seems to me that you are trying to make it impossible for an honest
poor man to sell milk.
"I see at Fremont that they want the milkers to wash the cow's udder
before milking. When a man lives on a rented farm and the landlord
will not furnish a cow barn and a fellow's cows are in an open shed
and the thermometer below zero, what would happen if he should wash
the cow's udder? Any fool knows it would freeze her udder and ruin
the cow."
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