30 Thirty-Fifth Annual Report of the 



milk shall exercise ordinary care and ordinary cleanliness. We 

 now reach the farmer, and i will briefly enumerate a few of the 

 more serious reasons for complaint, of one or more of which 

 most of them are guilty while some are guilty of all that I shall 

 mention, and more too. 



1. Very few of the barns are provided with any means 

 for ventilation and consequently the air is impure, especially dur- 

 ing the cold winter months. 



2. The cow's quarters are not kept clean — or, at least, not 

 as clean as they should be. 



3. During the winter months when the cows of necessity 

 must be kept in the barn, many farmers pay little attention to 

 keeping them clean, which results in a condition of affairs bet- 

 ter imagined than expressed in words. 



4. The manure is often piled in such places and in such 

 quantities that the inevitable result is the contamination of the 

 air in the cow's quarters. 



5. The barn yards are often quaking quagmires that cannot 

 be crossed unless one wears high rubber boots or is on a raft. 

 The cows in order to get to water or to pasture must wallow 

 through this. 



6. Oftentimes the only water accessible to the cattle in 

 pasture is stagnant pools. 



7. No facilities for properly cooling the milk. 



8. Milk not properly strained. 



9. Cans, strainers, milk pails, etc., not properly washed. 



10. In the winter time many farmers put the milk back of 

 the cows to keep it from freezing — this practice should be made 

 a crime punishable with death. 



11. A great many milkers milk witli wet hands. If the 

 hands or the cows' teats are dirty, as is usually the case, the 

 combination is a delightful one when taken into consideration with 

 the fact that milk is a food. 



12. The covers are often put on the cans before the milk is 

 cool, resulting in a smothered smell and taste that is very dis- 

 agreeable. 



13. The milk cans are not covered while being hauled to 

 the creamery. In muddy weather this often results in the cans 

 getting covered with mud, in hot weather it results in the milk 

 warming up with the consequent multiplication of bacterial life, 

 while in cold weather it results in the freezing of the milk. 



14. During the winter months a great many farmers think 

 that the milk requires little or no care and act accordingly, de- 

 livering it perhaps twice a week. 



I sincerely hope that every farmer present here today can 



