DAIRYING 



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9. Emptying bottles of milk and cream into poorly washed 

 utensils, such as tomato cans simply rinsed out with cold water. 



10. Taking several bottles of milk, daily, placing them in a 

 refrigerator and overlooking one which may be a week or more 

 old when finally used. This one will be spoiled, but the customer 

 immediately calls up headquarters and wants to know what's the 

 matter with his milk. 



11. Filling several small pitchers with milk or cream for a 

 large family, placing these on the table, and afterwards gathering 

 what is left from each pitcher into a milk bottle, where it is kept 

 in refrigerator. This will usually be sour by the next meal be- 

 cause of the distribution it has had in several .pitchers, and the 

 temperature at which it has been kept while on the table. 



12. Supplying milk and cream to a grocer who delivers' it 

 to customers. Some bottles of old milk will occasionally be over- 

 looked in the back part of his refrigerator, and these will l^ter 

 be delivered to customers. 



13. Dirty house refrigerators where dairy products are/kepe 

 by the customers. 



14. Failing to return clean bottles and using them for all 

 purposes around the house, such as turpentine and coal oil con- 

 tainers. 



THE DAIRY HOUSE OR MILK ROOM. 



842. After milking the cows, the milk is disposed of in 

 v arious ways. First, it may be shipped in cans to a city supply, a 

 oondensary, a cheese factory, or a creamery. Such cans of milk 

 may be held until delivery in cold water as shown in Plate 39 

 where the water pumped from a deep well flows through the milk 

 tanfc: to the stock watering tank. If this water is kept at a 

 temperature near 50 F. the milk will keep sweet, provided the 

 cans are clean, the milk is clean, and is cooled immediately after 

 milking. 



The milk house should be well lighted and ventilated, and 

 not used for any other purpose than for storing or handling milk. 

 If in addition to the tank of cold water described above a place is 

 provided for running the warm milk over a clean cooler into the 



