Genre:

News-Commentary, Drollery

Subjects:

Invention, Technology, Adulteration, Public Health, Nutrition

    Responding to an advertisement for a new machine for testing the 'genuineness of milk', insists that nobody is interested in testing 'that chalky article' and thinks it is 'Far better to swallow it [milk] with all its faults, than attempt to dive too deeply into its mysteries'.