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if the milk is for shipment, or to 60 degrees if for home use or delivery 

 to a factory. 



36. Never close a can containing warm milk which has not been aerated. 



37. If cover is left off the can, a piece of cloth or mosquito netting should be 



used to keep out insects. 



38. If milk is stored, it should be held in tanks of fresh, cold water (renewed 



daily), in a clean, dry, cold room. Unless it is desired to remove cream, it 

 should be stirred with a tin stirrer often eaough to prevent forming a thick 

 cream layer. 



39. Keep the night milk under shelter so rain can not get into the cans. In warm 



weather hold it in a tank of fresh cold water. 



40. Never mix fresh warm milk with that which has been cooled. 



41. Do not allow the milk to freeze. 



43. Under no circumstances should anything be added to milk to prevent its 

 souring. Cleanliness and cold are the only preventives needed. 



43. All milk should be in good condition when delivered. This may make it 



necessary to deliver twice a day during the hottest weather. 



44. When cans are hauled far they should be full, and carried in a spring wagon 



45. In hot weather cover the cans, when moved in a wagon, with a clean wet 



blanket or canvas. 



THE UTENSILS. 



46. Milk utensils for farm use should be made of metal and have all joints 



smoothly soldered. Never allow them to become rusty or rough inside. 



47. Do not haul waste products back lo farm in the same cans used for delivering 



milk. When this is unavoidable, insist that the skim milk or whey tank 

 be kept clean. 



48. Cans used for the return of skin milk or whey should be emptied and 



cleaned as soon as they arrive at the farm. 



49. Clean all dairy utensils by first thoroughly rinsing them in warm water; then 



clean inside and out with a brush and hot water in which a cleaning mater- 

 ial is dissolved; then rinse and lastly sterilize by boiling water or steam. 

 Use pure water only. 



50. After cleaning, keep utensils, inverted, in pure air, and sun if possible, until 



wanted for use. 



