MILK INSPECTION i8t 



Methods of Milking. 



i. Health, cleanliness and clothing of milkers. 



Milk Rooms. 



i. Cleanliness of premises. Presence of dust or flies. 



Health and cleanliness of employees. 



Purity of water and ice supply. 



Method of cooling milk. 



Method of keeping and storing milk. 



Method of washing and sterilizing utensils and care o£ 



the clean utensils. 

 Method of filling bottles or cans. 



"Transportation. 



i. Care and cooling of milk on wagons, at station or cream- 

 ery, on railway, and at receiving station. 

 2. Washing of returned empty utensils. 



Insistence should be gradually made that cows supplying- 

 market milk should be, tuberculin-tested. Now Grand Rapids, 

 Mich., Minneapolis, Montclair, N. J., Colorado Springs and Pasa- 

 dena are supplied with milk from tuberculin-tested cows. 



Dr. Goler, of Rochester, N. Y., also recommends, in case 

 the territory supplying a city is large, the establishment of one or 

 more laboratories in the country as sub-stations for the work of 

 milk inspection. This might be conveniently carried out in con- 

 nection with creameries. 



Country inspectors should not only perform their police duties, 

 but should act as teachers and should talk, and distribute printed 

 matter, concerning everything which relates to the production and 

 care of sanitary milk. 



The plan adopted by the Massachusetts Board of Health, in 

 publishing a monthly list of well conducted and cleanly farms, is ta 



