422 THE MILK SITUATION IN THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA. 



any quantity, either alone or mixed with other feed or fodder, hulls, screenings, 

 wet or dry brewer's grains, sour ensilage, or any waste by-product in the treat- 

 ment of grain, low marsh grass, or any of the questionable or exhausted feeds or 

 fodders employed either to increase the milking capacity of the animal or that 

 will produce an impoverished milk or that will impart to it unnatural odors or 

 flavors. Nor shall the cows be allowed to eat green or worm-eaten fruit, poison- 

 ous weeds, or to drink poisonous or stagnant water. 



COLLECTING AND HANDLING. 



30. It is furthermore understood and agreed that the cows from which is 

 obtained certified milk shall be milked only in a clean building and not in an 

 illy ventilated stable containing foul odors and bad air. 



31. No animal furnishing certified milk shall be milked until the udder shall 

 first have been cleaned in a manner approved by the parties of the first part. 



32. No person shall be allowed to draw the milk who has not within 15 min- 

 utes of the milking first washed his or her hands, using soap and nailbrush, and 

 afterwards thoroughly rinsing the hands in clean water. 



33. The person or persons engaged in milking shall also be dressed in clean 

 overclothes. 



34. No person shall be allowed to draw the milk who has been engaged with 

 the care of horses in the same clothing or without first washing his hands. 



35. No milk shall be represented as certified milk that is not received from 

 the udder into vessels and from these into cooling cans, both of which are per- 

 fectly clean and dry, having been cleansed and heated at a temperature ade- 

 quate to effect complete sterilization since the last milking, and have been kept 

 inverted in a clean, dry, and odorless atmosphere. 



36. No milk shall be represented as certified milk that has not been passed 

 through a sieve of wire or other cloth, either while milking or immediately 

 thereafter, having not less than 100 meshes to the linear inch. 



37. No milk shall be represented as certified milk that does not consist of the 

 entire contents of the udder at each milking, including the fore milk, middlings, 

 and strippings. 



38. No milk shall be represented as certified milk that has been drawn from 

 the animal at abnormal hours, such as midnight or noon, nor from any animal 

 for a period of nine weeks before calving, or that has not been separated for 

 nine days after parturition. 



39. No milk shall be represented as certified milk which has been exposed to- 

 the emanation or infection of any form of communicable disease, either in the 

 person or persons handling the milk or by accidental contamination in cleaning 

 milk containers or by the association of any person engaged in handling the- 

 milk with person or persons sick of contagious disease. 



PREPARATION FOR SHIPMENT. 



40. It is hereby understood and agreed that all milk represented as certified 

 milk shall receive every known detail of care that will promote its keeping 

 qualities and favor its safe transportation. 



41. That the milk on being drawn from the cow shall be treated by ice or 

 clean, cold water in motion, and proper aeration, in order, first, to remove its 

 animal heat, and second, to reduce its temperature to a point not above 50 nor 

 below 40 F., said temperature to be acquired within 45 minutes after milking 

 and maintained within the above limits while held for shipment, during its 

 transportation, and until it is delivered to the purchaser. 



42. That the cooling of the milk shall not be conducted in the same building, 

 in which it is drawn, nor in an atmosphere containing dust or tainted with 

 animal odors. 



43. That all the foregoing provisions concerning the cleansing and condition 

 of vessels or utensils shall be complied with in the said cooling process. 



44. It is furthermore agreed that no milk shall be represented as certified 

 milk that has been changed or reduced in any way by the addition of water or 

 any solid or liquid substance, in or out of solution, or the subtraction or removal, 

 in any manner, of any part thereof. 



45. It is hereby understood and agreed that all milk to be represented as 

 certified milk shall be packed in flint glass quart jars immediately after it is 

 cooled. 



46. Said jars to be of pattern approved by the parties of the first part. 



47. It is furthermore agreed that the bottles or jars, before being used, shall 

 be cleaned by hand, separately, with the aid of hot water, alkaline soaps, 



