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HOUSING AND CARE. 
26. It is furthermore agreed that the dairy stock employed in the production of cer- 
tified milk shall be properly sheltered from the influences of weather and climate 
prejudicial to their health, also that the animals shall he kept clean, groomed every 
day. and treated kindly at all times. 
27. The waste products of the stable shall be removed so frequently, and the stable 
floor so thoroughly cleaned, that the same shall be as free as possible from animal 
odors. 
28. It is also agreed that no milch cow shall be used for dairy purposes while in a 
state of excitement, either as a result or during the period of estrux, or which has been 
made nervous either by beating, whipping, kicking, prodding, or running. 
FEEDING. 
29. It is hereby understood and agreed that the methods of feeding the cows fur- 
nishing the certified milk shall be subject to the approval of the parties of the first 
part. The feed and fodder shall consist only of nutritious and wholesome materials, 
such as grass, clover and timothy hay, whole grain, or the entire result of the grist. 
No materials shall be employed which are or may become injurious to the health of the 
animals. There shall not be fed at any time or in any quantity, either alone or mixed 
with other feed or fodder, hulls, screenings, wet or dry brewer’s grains, sour ensilage, 
or any waste by-product in the treatment of grain, low marsh grass, or any of the ques- 
tionable or exhausted feeds or fodders employed either to increase the milking capac- 
ity of the animal or that will produce an impoverished milk or that will impart to it 
unnatural odors or flavors. Nor shall the cows be allowed to eat green or worm-eaten 
fruit, poisonous weeds, or to drink poisonous or stagnant water. 
COLLECTING AND HANDLING. 
30. It is furthermore understood and agreed that the cows from which is obtained 
certified milk shall be milked only in a clean building and not in an illy ventilated 
stable containing foul odors and bad air. 
31. No animal furnishing certified milk shall be milked until the udder shall first 
have been cleaned in a manner approved by the parties of the first part. 
32. No person shall be allowed to draw the milk who has not within fifteen min- 
utes of the milking first washed his or her hands, using soap and nail brush, and after- 
wards thoroughly rinsing the hands in clean water. 
33. The person or persons engaged in milking shall also be dressed in clean over- 
clothes. 
34. No person shall be allowed to draw the milk who has been engaged with the care 
of horses in the same clothing or without first washing his hands. 
35. No milk shall be represented as certified milk that is not received from the 
udder into vessels and from these into cooling cans, both of which are perfectly clean 
and dry, having been cleansed and heated at a temperature adequate to effect com- 
plete sterilization since the last milking, and have been kept inverted in a clean, dry, 
and odorless atmosphere. 
36. No milk shall be represented as certified milk that has not been passed through 
a sieve of wire or other cloth, either while milking or immediately thereafter, having 
not less than 100 meshes to the linear inch. 
37. No milk shall be represented as certified milk that does not consist of the entire 
contents of the udder at each milking, including the fore milk, middlings, and strip- 
pings. 
38. No milk shall be represented as certified milk that has been drawn from the ani- 
mal at abnormal hours, such as midnight or noon, nor from any animal for a period of 
