DAIRY MEETING. ' IJl 



and if necessary retrenchment along some lines can be had. If 

 the account is accurately kept you can see where to cut down 

 expenses. 



With regard to keeping food after it is purchased, and caring 

 for food in the home, many suggestions might be given along 

 this line. For instance, I wonder if many keep tomatoes? 

 Gather them before the frost comes, wipe them dry, place them 

 on straw and cover with sacks in the cellar, and if they are not 

 turned, and are firm and well grown, they will ripen excellent- 

 ly and you can have a very great delicacy during the winter with 

 these ripe tomatoes. 



It can be seen that the "hand that rocks the cradle" should 

 have a thorough knowledge of food, its constituents and its 

 value ; should be capable of judging raw food and knowing that 

 which would return the best results, and should know how to 

 care for the purchased food so that it will not deteriorate in her 

 keeping. 



THURSDAY, DECEAIBER 8. 

 DIRT AND ITS RELATION TO BACTERIA IN MILK, 



By Prof. H. D. Evans, Director State Laboratory of 

 Hygiene, Augusta. 



Members of the Association: 



I will not be so falsely polite as to say that I am glad to be 

 here at this time, for I certainly do not enjoy public speaking; 

 but I can truly offer you my sympathy in having to spend the 

 next few minutes under me. I shall, however, be as brief as 

 possible, and shall hope to bring to your attention some matters 

 that my milk work for the Department of Agriculture shows 

 to be in need of your attention. 



In assigning me the subject for this paper Mr. Redman in- 

 formed me that he was simply giving me a free and open license 

 to roam at will about the field of bacteriology. It so happens 

 that I have had considerable experience in a certain branch of 

 this work, namely the side of sanitary bacteriology as applied to 

 the diseases of the human family; and it also happens that for 



