REPORT OF STATE DAIRY INSPECTOR. 33 



cheese cloth, sheet wadding or cotton, is the usual method em- 

 ployed for the removal of the sediment that is known to enter 

 the pail during milking. 



Why dairymen do this instead of eliminating as much as 

 possible the chances for this sediment to enter the pail and 

 milk, is not understood. It would seem as if the occupation of 

 extracting this sensitive and valuable article of food, which 

 nature never intended to be exposed to light or air, has indeed, 

 become negligent. 



The use of some form of a covered or hooded milking pail 

 has been advocated and will continue to be advocated until 

 dairymen see the folly of trying to produce clean milk withcmt 

 some effort toward clean conditions at milking time and with 

 the chances for dirt entering the milk reduced to the minimum 



When I have visited milk producing farms in an effort to 

 enlighten the producer along sanitary lines with a resulting bet- 

 ter product I have always been welcomed. 



To call attention to a few details which before may have 

 seemed of little importance has, in many instances, resulted in 

 some improvements. 



With the education and gradual enlightenment of the pro- 

 ducer, I believe, lies the keystone of clean milk production; but 

 this cannot be perpetuated without the like education and en- 

 lightenment of the distributor and consumer. 



On a very large percentage of dairy farms in this state the 

 dual purpose barn is to be found and the usual methods of 

 manure disposal are to pitch it out of a window back of the 

 cows or allow it to pass through into the cellar. 



Sometimes barns of this sort are found when the lighting 

 and ventilation system is above reproach, but more often the 

 builder had little knowledge of what constitutes a sanitary cow 

 stable where milk is to be produced and extracted. 



Changes that are practical but not too expensive are always 

 recommended when possible, but it is given strictly to be under- 

 stood that however expensive and elaborate an equipment may 

 be made, if the essential details are neglected and the milkirg 

 process is slack and uncleanly, due to the lack of knowledge, 

 carelessness or lack of interest, the result will be negative. 



