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steam is necessary, preferably the latter. This may be used 

 by inverting the vessel over the steam jet or by placing the article 

 to be sterilized in an oven which is nearly steam tight. There 

 are on the market immense autoclaves for this purpose, but they 

 are not essential to success. A concrete or even wooden box built 

 at very nominal expense will serve nearly if not quite as well. 

 It is desirable that such sterilizer boxes be provided with a 

 door on either side so that the freshly washed dairy tools may 

 be put into the sterilizer from the wash room side and removed 

 from the milk bottling side of the room. 



Fig. 86. — Milk pails. No. 1 is the common open mouth kind. Some are too high and 

 sharp for comfort in milking. That on either end of the lower row is a very good pail. 



Strainers are at best a crude attempt to undo something 

 which should not have been necessary. Strainers as ordinarily 

 made cause the hairs, chaff and other coarse dirt to be washed 

 thoroughly as each successive pail is poured over them. The 

 best sort of strainer is a broad one consisting of a layer of 

 absorbent cotton between two sheets of clean cheese cloth. 



A clean barn is a material aid in the production of clean 

 milk (Tigs. 87, 88 and 89). Eight here, however, distinction 



