62 CLEAN MILKING 



STEP NO. 4. MILKING INTO COVERED PAIL 



Very clean cows in a very clean barn may be 

 milked into open pails, or into closed pails, with 



little difference in the contamination of milk by 

 dust. But most barns are dusty. Nine-tenths 

 of this dust can be kept out of the milk pail by 

 a cover or hood which has an opening only large 

 enough for convenient milking. Many farmers 

 easily milk through a five-inch opening. Thousands 

 of dairymen now use covered milking pails. Some 

 hired men object to using covered pails, but a 

 short trial always convinces them that their 



