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:>. To keep sick animals in a separate stable, tended 

 by a special attendant. 



4. To use the milk of any cow for no longer a 

 period than seven months running. 



">. To keep parturitant cows separated from the 

 milking cows. 



(".). To keep neither horses, steers nor sheep in same 

 stable with milking cows. 



7. To feed milking cows on the most approved 

 principles for avoiding acidity in milk, excluding all 

 refuse feed, such as wet brewers' or distillers' grains 

 or mash, adstringent oilcake or swill of any kind, and 

 to water cows with pure water. 



5. To feed to cows daily a proper allowance of salt. 



t>. To avoid all sudden changes in feeding, particu- 

 larly from dry to green fodder and back, never to 

 pasture milking cows but on artificial pasture of 

 clovers and grasses, and to avoid all kind of feed or 

 fodder having a laxative effect. 



10. To keep cows scrupulously clean in comforta- 

 ble, well ventilated stables, exercised, well bedded and 

 kindly treated. 



1.1. To exclude from the milk the first five strip- 

 pings out of each teat at every milking. 



1 '2. To keep all milk free from any and all chemi- 

 cal admixture or adulteration, such as salt, borax, 

 salicylic acid or others. 



13. To keep no manure pile in close proximity of 

 stables. 



14. To enforce utmost cleanliness from all persons 



