Clean Milk 



Where do these bacteria come from? Do 

 they do any good? Do they do any harm? 

 These are the questions which are naturally 

 asked. Most of the bacteria fortunately are 

 not those which induce disease. They are 

 the bacteria associated with dirt. They 

 come from dirty cows, stables, hands, and 

 pails, the dust of the stables, of the atmos- 

 phere of the milk house or creamery where 

 milk is mixed and bottled. But these dirt 

 bacteria are not the only ones which find 

 their way into milk. The germs which cause 

 various infectious diseases, such as typhoid 

 fever, scarlet fever, tuberculosis, diphtheria, 

 and mouth and foot disease, live and 

 rapidly multiply in milk. Every year epi- 

 demics occur which have been traced to milk 

 contaminated by ignorant or careless milk- 

 men, who have infected their milk from their 

 dirty hands or the dirty water, or in other 

 careless ways. This, of course, is entirely un- 

 necessary and can be prevented. The extent 

 of this danger may be judged by the fact that 

 two years ago there was published in one of 



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