riRST AMERICAN AGREEMENT 279 



FEEDING 



29. It is hereby understood and agreed that the methods 

 of feeding the cows furnishing the certified milk, shall be sub- 

 ject to the approval of the parties of the first part. The feed 

 and fodder shall consist only of nutritious and wholesome ma- 

 terials; such as grass, clover and timothy hay, whole grain, or 

 the entire result of the grist. No materials shall be employed 

 which are or may become injurious to the health of the ani- 

 mals. There shall not be fed at any time, or in any quantity, 

 either alone or mixed with other feed or fodder, hulls, screen- 

 ings, wet or dry brewers' grains, oil cake, sour ensilage, the 

 refuse from distilleries, glucose or starch factories, any waste 

 by-product in the treatment 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, poisonous 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 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 ap- 

 proved by the parties of the first part. 



32. No person shall be allowed to draw the milk that has 

 not within fifteen minutes of the milking first washed his or 

 her hands, using soap and nail brush, and afterward thor- 

 oughly rinsing the hands in clean water. 



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

 dressed in clean over-clothes. 



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 



