48 AGRICUIvTURE OF AIAIXE. 



The pails should be spotlessly clean, bright, comparatively 

 new, and always of metal. In making these pails, see that the 

 tinsmith solders all the seams and creases so that there will be 

 no sharp corners on the inside. Around the bottom where the 

 sides join the bottom, is the place where the fault usually occurs. 

 Get the tinsmith to run this acute angle full of solder, making 

 the corners round and more easily washed. 



The washing should be done in this wise : Rinse off the milk 

 with tepid or cold water, then wash the tin in water too hot for 

 the hand. Use a brush not a cloth, salsoda or some washing 

 powder, not soap. After thoroughly scrubbing with the brush, 

 rinse in boiling water, fresh from the spout of the teakettle, 

 rinsing off all of the suds. Do not wipe but set at once in the 

 sunlight for further disinfection. The straining of the milk may 

 well be done through two or more thicknesses of cheesecloth, 

 cut large enough to completely cover the top of an old fash- 

 ioned conical strainer and fastened thereto either w'ith four 

 clothespins or with a rubber cord. As often as these strainers 

 become, soiled, put on clean ones. The cloths themselves should 

 be washed in cool water then boiled every day. 



The milk is removed from the stable as fast as milked, strained 

 where the air is pure, then aerated and cooled. A little ingenuity 

 will suggest ways of making proper milk rooms at small ex- 

 pense, convenient to the stable yet far enough away from the 

 cows to avoid the odors and dirt. 



In conclusion I must admit that so much is said against milk 

 in the citv, and the price of pure milk in a non-discriminating 

 market is so low that there is little encouragement for the 

 production of a first class article. Some city people are crazy 

 to get things cheap, regardless of quality. On the other hand, as 

 city people become better educated they are going to appreciate 

 pure milk more and more and are going to be more and more 

 vv-illing to pay for it. Again, our creameries have been in the 

 habit of taking in milk and cream regardless of purity, but they 

 are learning that pure butter cannot be made from nasty milk. 

 A campaign of sanitation is therefore in order. Cleanliness is 

 no longer a matter of education, however, but of inspiration. It 

 is your duty and mine to preach this gospel of cleanliness by 

 example and by precept when we meet our neighbors and friends. 



