Clean Milk 



Dairy farmers who use a cooler should 

 keep this utensil scrupulously clean, sterilize 

 it, and, until it is to be used, covered with an 

 enveloping cloth or a bag with drawing 

 strings. The ice must be put in before the 

 cloth is removed, that dirt from the ice may 

 not fall on the surface over which the milk 

 is to flow. The use of this additional utensil 

 and the extra handling of milk may be ad- 

 vantageous for the clean dairyman, who 

 really wants to cool the milk thereby, but 

 the man who will not take sufficient care in 

 this process would better not do it at all, 

 as his milk is probably better before passing 

 over the cooler than after. 



Dairymen would do well to consider what 

 they expect to accomplish by using the 

 cooler. If they want to cool milk in that 

 way, and find it a saving of ice, well and 

 good. But if they seek to remove odors from 

 milk, they are working along wrong lines. 

 The so-called cow odor is removed in the best 

 and quickest way by keeping manure out of 

 milk. Food odors can be practically kept 



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