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put the palm of the hand over the mouth of the bottle and shake 

 the bottle vigorously. All dairymen wash their bottles at the 

 dairy, but unless bottles are rinsed thoroughly in the home it is 

 very difficult to remove the film of milk that sticks to the glass. 



Milk bottles should be used for milk only. To put vinegar, 

 molasses, kerosene, dyes and similar substances into them is un- 

 fair to other customers and to the dairyman. The bottle that is 

 in your home today will be in some other home tomorrow. Do 

 as you would be done by. In some places the use of milk bottles 

 for anything other than milk is forbidden by law. 



Be careful not to break or lose milk bottles, for they are ex- 

 pensive. The cost of broken bottles is borne first by the dairy- 

 man, but if many are broken there is a tendency on his part to 

 increase the price of milk to meet this added expense. 



Removal of Caps. 



Most bottle caps can be removed easily with a fork or other 

 sharp-pointed instrument, but care should be taken that the cap 

 is not pushed down into the milk. The practice of pushing the 

 cap down into the milk with the thumb is a filthy one, and so is 

 the habit of drinking milk from the bottle. 



Keep Milk Bottles Out of the Sick Room. 



Milk bottles should never be taken into the sick-room, for 

 they are easily infected there and may carry contagion not only 

 to other members of the family but to other families. Milk that 

 has been in the sick-room should not be used by well members 

 of the family, for milk is very easily infected with disease or- 

 ganisms which multiply therein, and, therefore, it is peculiarly 

 likely to serve as a carrier of communicable disease. 



If an infectious disease appears in the home, do not permit 

 the milkman to leave milk bottles, but put out a covered dish 

 into which the milk can be poured. Infected milk bottles have 

 been the cause of many epidemics. 



