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nized among other ways by its appearance, it being thick, 

 slimy, and mixed with lumps.* 



" Diseased Milk." It is fortunately still rather seldom 

 in this as well as other northern countries to find the milk 

 which is in any way abnormal when drawn from the udder. 

 Creameries troubled with " diseased milk " are, however, 

 often mentioned in our agricultural literature, and cream- 

 erymen usually account for the poor quality of the butter 

 produced by this reason. Milk which is abnormal when 

 drawn may occasionally appear also on our farms, but 

 generally the diseases of the milk met with in our cream- 

 eries and dairies have arisen because the milk has been 

 subjected to a careless treatment after having been drawn. 

 Many dairymen try to hide their own faults and careless- 

 ness by speaking of diseased milk, in the same way as 

 persons who do not understand their business generally 

 lay the poor results obtained to faults in the material or 

 the tools. 



Light in Cow-stables. If the preceding directions of 

 strict order and cleanliness during the milking process and 

 in all manipulations on the farm are to be followed, it is 

 absolutely necessary to have sufficient light in the stables, 

 especially during milking-time. Most of our stables leave, 

 however, much to be wished for in this respect. This is 

 true not only of the previously mentioned dark, prison-like 

 cow-stables so often met with at our smaller farms, but also 

 of many farms run in a rational manner. It is of great 

 importance to have sufficient light in the cow-stable, not 

 only for the reason that the larger number of bacteria, and 



* See Bang, "The Causes of Inflammation of the Udder in 

 Cows," 14th Report, Copenhagen Experiment Station, 1889, 38 pp. 



