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should be done b}' cleanly persons, with dry hands, and having the 

 soiled clothes covered wit li an ouler garment, to prevent the shedding 

 of dirt i)ai'ticles into the milking pail. The prompt removal of all 

 milk from the stable, and its being immediately strained, a-iid cooled 

 to a U'mj)erature of 50 degrees ¥., in an atmosphere free from dust 

 and all taint of the stable; if not to be shipped immediately it should 

 be stored in ice, so that the above temperature may be maintained. 

 The utmost cleanliness should be maintained at all times, particu- 

 larly with the dairy utensils, which, after a thorough washing with 

 warm water and soap, should always be sterilized with live steam or 

 boiliog water, and then be exposed to the sunshine and pure air. 



We have not asked for the expenditure of much additional money 

 or labor, but simply for Hie intelligent use of what we already com- 

 mand. Practical dairy hygiene calls for good, healthy cow^s, prac- 

 tical inexpensive stables, and rational methods; that is all. The 

 methods pursued, however, are of the greatest importance. No 

 man has a moral right, nor should he have the legal right to sell or 

 hand to his fellow men, be he milk vendor or creameryman, the pro- 

 duct of any dairy that does not receive the best sanitary care that 

 his means and conditions will admit of. The law punishes us for 

 allowing noxious weeds to grow where they can invade our neigh- 

 bor's crops, but the man who dumps contami«ated milk into the 

 creamery tank, thereby impairing the quality of the whole batch — 

 T)robably the output of a half dozen or more farms— goes ''scot-free," 

 and ridicules the so-called "fancy farmer" who is trying to do his best 

 in the direction of improvement, but is handicapped for want of a 

 chance to deliver his goods undefiled. Pay the man who adopts ra- 

 tional sanitary melhods in the dairy a fair price for his products, or, 

 rather, give him the advantage of the contingent fund that every 

 creameryman is now compelled to set apart to meet the inevitable 

 losses under the old slip-shod methods, and then pay the other fellow 

 a i)roportionally lower price to meet losses, and the importance 

 of dairv hvgiene will be made evident to all, m terms easily under- 

 stood. 



13— G— 1903 



