V005-105

Letter from E. S. Babcock to Mrs. George Neale

Bound Correspondence, Volume 5, page 105

01/20/1889

Babcock, Elijah S.

 

Babcock writes to Neale regarding problems with milk from an Otay dairy.

Hotel del Coronado; Letters; Correspondence; Elijah S. Babcock; E. S. Babcock; Mrs. George Neale; Milk production; Otay dairy; Hotel industry

1500 Orange Avenue

California - Coronado

 

Dining at the Del

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January 20, 1889
Mrs Geo. Neale,
Coronado, Calif.

Dear Madam:-- I have spent considerable of today investigating the milk problem. To be frank with you, I have come to the conclusion that for some reason or other which I can not now determine, your milk does not at all compare with the milk we get from the Otay, and it has every appearance of containing water. I have just learned that you are in the habit of putting a lump of ice into the milk for the purpose of cooling it and drawing out the animal heat, and it may be this is the cause. I have telegraphed to San Francisco for a lactometer, and will see that Mr. Knapp test the milk as it is delivered, and call your man's attention to the matter whenever its not up to standard. In the meantime, will you please give instructions to stop the putting in of ice, and let us see if that will not avoid the trouble. I will also instruct Mr. Knapp to go down and call on you and thoroughly investigate the milk from the time it leaves the cow until it goes to the consumer which I trust will enable us to learn the trouble.

Yours truly,
E.S. Babcock

 

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