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white clothes, which are better than colored clothes because 

 they show dirt when soiled. The milking clothes should be made 

 of washable materials. These are worn during the milking or 

 handling the milk, and some dairies insist that this clothing 

 should be sterilized each day. Directions for thorough washing 

 and drying the hands before milking, and for the care of the 

 person are coming to be common in the better class of dairies. 



FIG. 47 MILKING IN A MILKING ROOM 

 An ideal condition of cleanliness 



We have already learned that bacteria from the persons em- 

 ployed in the dairy are more likely to be dangerous than those 

 from any other source. For all of these reasons it is desirable 

 that proper care should be given to persons employed in the 

 dairy. No one should be allowed to handle any milk, to wash the 

 milk cans, or to handle the milking utensils in any way, who is 

 suffering from any contagious disease. Nor indeed should any 

 farm furnish milk to the public if there is a case of typhoid, 



