FORTY-SECOND ANNUAL CONVENTION 115 



Under the Food Law an article is unfit for food — If it 

 consists in whole or in part of a filthy, decomposed or putrid, 

 infected, tainted or rotten animal or vegetable substance or ar- 

 ticle, or any portion of an animal unfit for food, whether man- 

 ufactured or not or if it is the product of a diseased animal, or 

 one that has died otherwise than by slaughter. 



The sale of such cream for food purposes is prohibited. 

 Now, it does not cost a farmer any more money to make first 

 grade cream. A few simple methods with good equipment will 

 do this. You should first keep in mind that when you are handl- 

 ing milk and cream you are handling a human food product. 

 You may have fed it to the hogs in the past but the great ma- 

 jority of it is for human food. A great many people forget 

 that and handle it like bricks or junk. It is not right that peo- 

 ple who are depending upon dairy products should have forced 

 upon them poor products, resulting from your carelessness, as 

 you like to have the laws protect you so the public is entitled to 

 your co-operation to protect them. 



Have your milkers milk with clean hands. Have them wear 

 clean clothing. They should wash and thoroughly dry the cow's 

 udder. They should not milk into the old fashioned open pail, 

 but into a pail with a small but hooded opening. After milking 

 each cow they should go to the milk house and pour the con- 

 tents of the pail into the milk can. The can should not stand 

 around the barn until it is filled or until the milking is done. It 

 should be kept in a clean, cool milk house. The milk should be 

 kept cool until delivered. If you are shipping cream, you should 

 take the milk immediately to the separator and it should be sep- 

 arated through a clean separator. Cream should be cooled thor- 

 oughly before it is poured into the can holding the cream of 

 previous separation. Never mix warm with cold cream. The 

 cream cans should be in a cool and clean smelling place, and the 

 cans of cream should be delivered frequently to the creamery. 

 The only additional expense is the difference in cost of the hood- 

 ed small open pail over the old fashioned wide open pail. Ut- 

 most care should be given to the cleaning of the utensils. 



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