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THE CREAMERY PATRON'S HANDBOOK. 



IRON-CLAD TIN MILK PAIL. 



times before and that it may possibly furnish a new idea or two to those 

 who are less familiar with the subject. 



THE MILKER'S RESPONSIBILITY. When a man is milking, he should 

 bear in mind that he is handling a food product which will undoubtedly 



be placed on the tables of many 

 people in essentially the same con- 

 dition that it is obtained from him. 

 He should be just as particular and 

 as careful when milking to supply 

 his customers or a factory as he 

 is when filling the glass pitcher 

 which his wife or child brings him 

 when milking and asks to have it 

 filled for his own supper table. 



Many of our food products 

 are "purified by fire," or cooked 

 before they appear on the table, but 

 milk and its products are, as a rule, 

 used raw with all the impurities 

 that may have gotten into them on 

 the way from the cow to the table. 

 The consumer does not like to be reminded of these possibilities of con- 

 tamination and he will therefore gladly pay an extra price for milk 

 which is known to be clean and wholesome. 

 Milk is sometimes a source of posi- 

 tive danger to a community as it has been 

 demonstrated that diseases may be spread 

 by the milk supply from one farm to 

 many households. When such conta- 

 gious diseases as typhoid fever, diphtheria, 

 scarlet fever, etc,, occur in a family sell- 

 ing milk, the fact should at once be made 

 known to the proper authorities and the 

 milk produced on that farm should be 

 disposed of as directed by them. A sick 

 person or one convalescing from any 

 contagious disease, or any one acting as a 

 nurse for the sick, should not be allowed 

 in the cow stable or permitted to take 

 care of the cows. He also should neither be allowed to handle nor de- 

 liver the milk, as it is one of the best food materials for disease germs. 

 They thrive and multiply with alarming rapidity in milk. It is therefore 

 necessary to use every precaution possible to prevent the spreading of 

 diseases by criminal carelessness in handling milk from an infected locality. 



ELGIN MILK STRAINER. 



