10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «TOWN MILK»
Discover the use of
town milk in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
town milk and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Medicine and Colonial Identity
For cow's milk to have value as a children's food, paradoxically it first had to be
restored to purity.81 In 1906 the Christchurch City Council followed international
trends when it decided that the town milk supply had to be reformed for milk to be
...
Bridie Andrews, Mary P. Sutphen, 2003
2
Feeding the Victorian City: The Food Supply of Manchester, ...
While there is little doubt that top-quality town milk could command a premium,
such supplies were negligible in Manchester. The real competition was from milk
brought in by road or canal, and there the railway was at much less of a ...
Roger Scola, Pauline Scola, 1992
3
Australian Agriculture: Its History and Challenges
Large amounts of hay and other feed had to be brought in from the countryside
as spent brewers grain was the only feedstuff available in town. Milk quality in
English towns during the 18th century was 'almost indescribably bad' and such
as ...
4
The Private Marketing Entrepreneur and Rural Development: ...
... raise their incomes, and provided a reliable source of healthy food to the cities,
but has also initiated the whole process of rural development in the rural
hinterland. Back in l930 Bahashaib Chitali was a small town milk l00 Chitali's
Dairy - India.
Malcolm Harper, Richard Kavura, 1982
5
Liquid Materialities: A History of
Milk, Science and the Law
But the production costs of town milk eventually madeit unprofitable. Inthe
overcrowded cowsheds there wasan expensive toll from endemic cattle
diseasessuchas pleuro pneumonia,and occasional epidemicsof
rinderpestandfoot andmouth.
Professor Peter Atkins, 2012
6
The New Village Green: Living Light, Living Local, Living Large
8. Harris, Harold J. “Raw Milk can Kill You..” Coronet, May 1945. 9. Harvey,
Holman. “How Safe is Your Town's Milk” The Progressive, July 15, 1946. 10.
Harvey, Holman. “How Safe is Your Town's Milk” The Reader's Digest, August
1946. 11.
7
English Agriculture in 1850-51
The others find it their interest to feed well, which they do on hay, grains, bran,
and swedes in winter, and turn their cows out in summer to pasture on the
aftermath, in hay fields near the town. Milk sells at 3d. a quart, the largest
consumption ...
As for milk, town milk was notorious. Small country towns could be supplied from
the surrounding farms, but to provide sufficient milk for a population the size of
Bath's required the keeping of cows in the city itself, in cramped, unhygienic
barns ...
9
Successes in African Agriculture: Lessons for the Future
... 2000 Profitability Milk prices (Ksh/liter) As a Farm percentage purchase Retail
of retail price price price US$/day Pasteurized milk, formal supply channel 16 50
— — Raw milk, informal channels Nakuru town Milk bars 19 24 11 5.37 Hawkers
...
Haggblade, Steven, Hazell, Peter B. R., 2010
10
A Statistical Account of the British Settlements in ...
I should also say, that a skilful dairyman, who could take out with him a capital of
from one to two thousand pounds, would do well in either of the settlements, and
more especially at Ho- bart Town. Milk and butter bear high prices both at ...
William Charles Wentworth, 1824
