Clean Milk 



from the receiving to the bottling room the 

 milk should receive its last necessary strain- 

 ing, but preferably should not be strained 

 into the bottle filler. Where this is done 

 properly by the use of a good wire mesh 

 strainer little objection can be made, but the 

 usual method of using loose cheesecloth, 

 which is constantly slipping into the milk, 

 is far worse than no straining at all. 



The requirements for bottling and the 

 need of an isolated room for the purpose 

 have previously been indicated in the chap- 

 ter on Bottling Milk. Once milk is bottled 

 and kept tightly covered the danger of ex- 

 ternal contamination is practically elimin- 

 ated. There remains only one thing to do 

 henceforth, and that is, pile on ice. Not only 

 at the country establishment and on the 

 railroad train, but also, and more particu- 

 larly, when on the delivery wagons in the 

 city, should bottled milk be kept iced. Care- 

 ful dealers have come to recognize this, and 

 now provide stations where their delivery 

 men re-ice in the course of the morning's 



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