FARM DAIRYING 



on the cows and on the milk-flow. Milking comes 

 at such inconvenient hours for the housewife, and 

 her duties are already so manifold, she should not 

 be asked to go to the stable to milk. Moreover, 

 many stables, I am sorry to say, are not fit for 

 her, with her skirts, to enter. It is well for the 

 women on the farm to learn how to milk, so that 

 in case of sickness or absence of the men, they may 

 attend to the cows. 



On the farm, very often the first chore in the 

 morning is the milking. The man takes the pails 

 and goes to the barn. He sits down to milk a cow 

 and at the same time another man begins putting 

 down hay and filling the manger and after that 

 starts to clean out the stable. The air is laden 

 with the night breath of the cows, the odor and 

 gases from the lifted manure, and the bacteria- 

 laden dust of the hay. 



The milk passing through such an atmosphere 

 can and does absorb and carry with it Impurities 

 which seriously injure its quality and produce the 

 " cowy " flavor, bitter flavor, etc., so often found 

 in milk, especially in winter. 



Better to have a dirty floor than a dirty atmos- 

 phere in a stable at milking time. The milk does 

 not touch the floor but it passes directly through 

 the atmosphere. If you want pure milk the air 

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