48 THE FARM DAIRY. 



that the ct>ok is preparing there for you? The 

 probabilities are that the food that she is pre- 

 paring at the stable is no more contaminated 

 than is the milk that you obtain from the cows, 

 if as much. The milk is as much an article of 

 food as anything the cook is preparing for you. 



Personal Cleanliness Necessary. — ^I suggest 

 that you allow the cook the same privileges that 

 you take. If you go from your farm work to 

 milking without washing your hands, allow the 

 cook to go from other housework to preparing 

 the supper without washing her hands. It will 

 shock her to do it, but probably she may be 

 induced to do it once to give you a lesson. If 

 you do your milking with the clothes on that 

 you have been doing other work in, let the cook 

 have the same privilege. "What matters it if 

 she waits on the table with the clothes she had 

 on when she scrubbed the floor? That is not as 

 bad as your milking with the clothes you had on 

 when currying the horses or cleaning the hog 

 pen. 



You need to have this matter driven home 

 to you, and with some it requires hard blows 

 to do this. Eemember that there is no food 

 that the cook is preparing that will be so readily 

 contaminated as is milk from impure unclean 

 surroundings. It is as necessary to cleanse the 

 cow's udder before milkin g as it is to cleanse 

 vegetables before cooking; yes, more necessary. 



