Clean Milk 



can be arranged to insure perfect care of the 

 milk. The bottling of milk at the country 

 establishment is the most important part of 

 its routine, and usually its most glaring 

 weakness. If this were accomplished prop- 

 erly the whole tone of the establishment 

 would tend to improve. 



In the receiving of milk from the farmers 

 there is usually to be found some objection- 

 able features. One is pumping milk to a 

 gallery or upper floor and another is admit- 

 ting the farmers in close proximity to the 

 exposed milk in vats or in process of 

 bottling. 



The pumping of milk is most reprehen- 

 sible, as the extent of pipe surface it touches 

 is considerable and the piping is difllcult to 

 clean thoroughly. Furthermore, the desired 

 result, namely, the securing of sufficient 

 " fall " for the flow of milk, can be accom- 

 plished in a much more satisfactory way. It 

 should be planned that the wagons drive up 

 to a sufficient elevation to deliver on the up- 

 per floor, or gallery. When the building sets 



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