170 MILK HYGIENE 



from cows suffering from anthrax or rabies (bitten by 

 affected animals), and that from cows with, mastitis, 

 with inflammation of the uterus and retention of the 

 afterbirth, inflammation of the intestines or severe 

 diarrhoea, and with severe cellulitis or abscesses and 

 suppurating wounds. 



Milk should not be used from cows suffering from 

 any sort of febrile disease or intoxication, with pox or 

 suppurating sores on the teats, with inflanunation or 

 other disease of the udder, constipation or diarrhoeas 

 Moreover, it should not be used from cows that are being 

 treated with medicines that have a strong odor (volatile 

 oils, ether, asafoetida and the like), with alkaloids or 

 potent glycosides, with preparations of iodine, arsenic, 

 mercury, antimony or lead. 



A very proper requirement is that milk from cows 

 that have recently calved is not to be mixed with the rest 

 of the milk, for the beast milk (colostrum) differs 

 greatly in composition from normal milk and may have 

 a harmful effect on small children. For 6 to 8 days 

 after calving, the milk should not be mixed with the 

 other milk. Also, milk from cows approaching the 

 end of the period of gestation and which are only 

 giving a little milk, should not be mixed with that 

 intended for sale, because it is often quite alkaline and 

 may differ a good deal in its composition from normal 

 milk. 



The complete observance of these requirements is, 

 evidently, very difficult to control. In part, one must 

 rely on the honesty of the owner, who should be held 

 responsible for failure to comply with the legal require- 

 ments. When a dairyman is under contract to furnish 

 milk to a company having its own conditions and regula- 

 tions, he may be held accountable for failure to fulfil 

 the obligations he has undertaken. In general, it can be 



