HANDLING OF MILK AND CREAM 



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bloody milk from the udder, the whole must be thrown away. 

 Milking stools must be clean; iron stools, painted white, are recom- 

 mended (see Figs. 5 and 6), or the use of a milk pail as a seat (see 

 Fig. 9, page 105). 



After the milker has donned his milking suit and cap and 

 washed his hands, he should touch absolutely nothing but the 

 cleaned teats of the cow and his clean stool and milk pail. The 

 habit of milkers wetting their hands with milk is not to be tolerated. 



No person employed to milk, or handle milk in any way, should 

 have, or have come in contact with, any contagious disease. In 

 case of illness in the household of an employee a physician's certifi- 



Fig, 6. 



Fig- 5- 



Iron Milking Stool. 



Milking Stool. 



cate should be required of the employee stating that the illness is 

 not communicable before permitting the employee to come in contact 

 with milk in any manner. 



The safest rule is to debar a person from handling milk who 

 has tuberculosis, syphilis, severe diarrhea, or suppurating sores on 

 the surface of the body, throat trouble or any infectious disease, or 

 has come in contact with a patient suffering from contagious dis- 

 order, or entered a dwelling in which there has been contagious 

 disease. 



If a cow has one-quarter of the udder inflamed so that pus 

 (slime) or blood escapes from it into the milk, the milk from the 

 whole udder is unfit for human consumption. The cow should be 



