APPENDIX P 585 



Milk received in a chum which has not been securely sealed, will be made 

 into butter, and paid for according to market price of butter. 



A ticket or label provided by the company to be sent with every 

 consignment of milk, stating the quantity consigned. On receipt 

 of the consignment the quantity will be carefully ascertained by 

 the company, and in case of any excess or deficiency, the quantity 

 found to have been actually received will be stated on one of the 

 company^s post-cards, in the form printed below, and sent to the 

 sender, who shall be bound by, and shall be paid for, the quantity 

 so stated. 



Quality of Milk. 



All milk to be of good quality, and to be delivered in a pure 

 and good condition. 



The whole of the produce of each cow to be sent at each meal, 

 that is, the sender on no account to allow his cows to be partly 

 milked and to send the first portion only to the company, and keep 

 back the " strippings " for feeding calves or for any other purpose. 



No cream to be removed or in any way abstracted from the milk. 



No water or any other ingredient or material to be added to, or 

 mixed with the milk. 



Milk yielding less than 3-25 per cent, "fat" and 875 per cent. 

 " solids not fat," to be regarded as not complying with the term 

 " good quality," the reports of the company's analyst to be accepted 

 without dispute. 



No milk to be sent from any cow that is not in good health, or 

 that is under physic. 



No milk to be sent from a newly calved cow or from a newly 

 purchased cow until she shall have been in the possession of the 

 sender one clear day ; or from any cow whose calf has been 

 removed, for the space of one clear day after removal. 



No mixed milk of two separate meals to be sent. 



Straining and Cooling. 



All milk to be sent away fresh, that is — the morning's milk to 

 be sent the same morning ; and the evening's milk the same evening 

 — summer and winter. 



All milk to be properly strained as soon after being taken from 

 the cow as possible, and before it is put into the chums. 



All milk to be thoroughly cooled, immediately after milking, 

 over a refrigerator, which shall be of a description satisfactory to 

 the company, and to which an ample supply of water from the 

 source or sources only passed by the Medical Officer of Health for 

 the district and by the compan^s analyst, and described at the 

 end of this contract, "shall be provided, and the drainage from § 

 which shall not be connected with any covered drain. Milk to be ^ 

 considered as not having been thoroughly cooled, when the 

 temperature, on arrival at the company's dairy is found to be higher than the 

 average temperature of milk of the same meal received from other farms. 



N.B. — The sender to daily examine his refrigerator and the in-flow and out- 

 flow pipes, etc., in order to see that everything is in thorough repair, and 

 that there is not any leakage. 



