64 CLEAN MILKING 
immense damage to milk from the bacteria which 
grow in the old milk remaining in the machine. 
It is a serious business to clean a milking ma- 
chine properly. It must be taken entirely apart 
twice daily, brushed with soda solution and ster- 
ilized with one of the chlor- 
ine sterilizing liquids. For 
a large herd, the machine is 
a much greater economy 
than forasmall herd. Dairy- 
men with small herds make 
better milk with covered 
pails and hand milking. 
STEP NO. 5. STRAINING 
MILK 
Clean milk needs no 
straining. Clean milk leaves 
no dirt on the strainer cloth. 
The cleanest dairymen usc 
no strainers. Clean diary- 
men believe that strainers are needed only for 
dirty milk. 
