Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1874-09-04
Cleanliness with MIX.

Harris Lewis expresses himself as
follows with regard to the proper
care OF milk: He says milk comes
to us loaded with germs prepared
for its own destruction. These pu-
trctactive germs can be retarded or
FASTENED in their growth, and they
can be killed by heating to 2l2 deg.
Freshly-drawn milk emits an animal
odor. This is worse in unhealthy
than in healthy cows. Few people
relish new milk when just drawn.
This animal odor has caused us a
great deal of trouble. We used to
think it was a gas, hut have had to
give up the idea. The best deodor-
izer of milk is pure air. We use a
pail with small holes in the bottom,
through which the milk is poured
into the milk pans. The milk falls
through the air in very small streams,
and, in this way, is thoroughly de-
odorized. 1t is first strained through
cloth, before it enters the perforated
pail. Never areate milk in the sta
BILE or where the air is impure, for it
may be made worse. The pure air
of heaven is what is wanted. He had
made many experiments to test this
question. He took several lots Of
milk that were all exactly alike.
No. l. He aired and cooled down
to 81 deg.
No. was shut up in can at SO
deg, or the natural temperature of
fresh milk, and exposed to the heat
of the sun, as milk is exposed when
carted to the factory or the village
market in open wagons.
No. was exposed to bad odors,
and in forty minutes it had purified,
and in seventy minutes was rotten.
No. in seven hours was in the
same condition as No. Spoiled.
No. l, after standing 100 hours,
was perfectly sweet, showing how
milk varies under different circum-
stances.
There are other t,ints from unclean
pals and pans. These taints may
be killed by boiling water. Water
at low temperature may destroy,
but nothing less than 202 deg. is
safe. And now, to all who use
wooden milk-pails, he would say, use
them no longer for milk-pails, but
buy tin-pails for milk. Hogs are
said to need sour swill, and wooden
pals are just the thing for them, but
they are never fit for milk-pails. The
neatcr your wife is the sooner they
will be spoiled, for, if she is neat she
will very soon scour off the coat of
paint, and then, after each scalding,
the pail will be put out on a post or
laid on shelfto dry and get aired in
the sun. The effect that follows is
the drying and shrinking of the
wood, by which a hundred little
seams will be opened on every square
inch of surface, each of which is
large enough to take in the particles
or atoms OF milk. When the farmer
comes to milk in these pals at night,
the water Of the milk acts on the
pail as it does on all dry wood, by
swelling it up and shutting all the
seams with the milk in them. The
next day the particles of milk arc
there, out of the reach of the neates,
house-keeper, and the pals are again
put in the sun to dry. The shrink
ing process is repeated, and the milk
is again exposed to the same condi
ton of the sample just spoken Of
which, in seven hours, was rotten
The next time it is used it imparts q
faint, a ferment like yeast, which
will, under favorable circumstances
destroy the whole mess. Use tin fol
all milk vessels, and have as few
seams and sharp angles in then az
possible.
There are other kinds of taints
Constable taints are the most mex
cusable Of all. He had been called
in to see some cheese at a store in
his village. The grocer said that hi
had bought some cheeses Of one o,
Mr.. LIS neighbors which did moi
quite suit his customers, and he
wanted to know what was the matter
with them. 81 looked at the cheeses.'
said Mr.. L. rubbed a little between
my fingers, smelt of it, tasted it, and
told the grocer to let me go-I die
not want to say anything about it,
''But," said the man, 1--WE want YOU
to tell us what ais the cheese. Il
cuts well and feels we'll but there il
something peculiar about it." "Well,
said l, eff l must tell you, Mr.
did not pu il quite enough milk witt
his COW manure to make q GOOD
cheese of it,"
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