62 CLEAN MILKING 
STEP NO. 4. MILKING INTO COVERED PAIL 
Very clean cows in a very clean barn may be 
milked into open pails, or into closed pails, with 
little difference in the contamination of milk by 
dust. But most barns are dusty. Nine-tenths 
of this dust can be kept out of the milk pail by 
a cover or hood which has an opening only large 
enough for convenient milking. Many farmers 
easily milk through a five-inch opening. Thousands 
of dairymen now use covered milking pails. Some 
hired men object to using covered pails, but a 
short trial always convinces them that their 
