MANURE 



CHAPTER 11. 



MANURE at a dairy farm is unavoid- 

 able, but the evil of its presence can 

 be minimized. Admittedly the chief 

 obstacle in the securing of clean milk, the 

 objections to it need hardly be stated. 



It is one of the causes of the " animal 

 odor," to remove which farmers aerate so 

 conscientiously; it pollutes the premises, 

 attracts flies, offers a breeding place for 

 germs, and is a serious inconvenience when 

 women of the family do the milking. By its 

 very nature it is the most offensive contam- 

 ination, and the mere proximity, not to men- 

 tion actual presence of it in milk, should ren- 

 der abhorent that fluid as an article of food. 

 Although the dairy farmers to a man recog- 

 nize this and each stoutly maintains that his 

 milk is free from it, yet in how many cases 

 are the precautions against it woefully inad- 

 equate? Its value as a fertilizer has compli- 

 cated the problem of keeping it out of milk. 

 In order to collect it, the farmer carefully 



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