The Bottling of Milk 



and the uses to which it is put, the thousand 

 and one exposures it undergoes, and the 

 varying customers it serves require that it 

 shall be subjected to the simple and ade- 

 quate precaution of sterilization. 



Bottling for the small farmer is subject to 

 the same requirements. The bottling room 

 should be clean and kept in a sanitary con- 

 dition; it should not be directly connected 

 with the house or the cow barn, and precau- 

 tions taken against the entrance of flies 

 and dirt. 



The sterilization can be accomplished by 

 the use of a wash boiler if no other means 

 are available. 



The packing and shipping should be done 

 apart, and the milker excluded from the 

 bottling room. The milk pails could be 

 passed through a window or door, or the 

 milk poured through an opening in the wall 

 into a receiving vat. From this receiving 

 vat the milk can be directly bottled, warm 

 as it is, and cooled later by the ice covering 

 the bottle in the shipping box. 



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