The anti-monopolist., 1874-10-01
THE FARM AND HOUSEHOLD
Cleanliness With Milk.

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of milk: He says milk comes to us
loaded with germs prepared for its own
destruction. These putrefactive germs
can be retarded or hastened in their
growth, and they can be killed by heat
ing to 2l2 degrees. Freshly.draun
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 great deal Of trouble. We
used to think it was gas, but have had
to give up that idea. The best deodori-
zer of milk is pure air. We use 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 deodorized. It is first
strained through cloth, before it enters
the perforated pail. Never areate milk
in the stable 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 exactly alike.
No. l. lie aired and cooled down to
81 degrees.
No. was shut up in can at % Q I,
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. 3 was exposed to bad odors, and
in forty minutes it had purified and
in seventy was rotten.
No. 2 in seven hours was in the same
condition as No. 3-spoiled.
No. l, after standing 120 hours was
perfectly sweet, showing how milk va
ries under different circumstances.
The are other taints from unclean
pals and pans. These taints may be
killed by boiling water. Water at a
low temperature may destroy, but
nothing less than 2O2 deg. is safe. And
now, to all who use wooden milk pals,
he would say, use them no longer for
milk pals, but buy tin pals for milk.
Hogs are said to need sour swill, and
wooden pals are just the things for
them, but they are never fit for milk
palS. The neater 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
post or laid on shelf to dry and get
aired in the sun. The effect that fol-
lows is the drying and shrinking of the
wood, by which 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
into 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 are there, out of the reach of the
neatest housekeeper, and the pals are
again put in the sun to dry. The
shrinking process is repeated, and the
milk is exposed to the same condition
Of the sample just spoken of, which, in
seven hours, was rotten. The next
time it is used it imparts taint, fer
ment like yeast, which will, under ia.
vorable circumstances, destroy the
whole mess. Use tin for all milk ves-
sells, and have as few seams and sharp
angles in them as possible.
There are other kinds of taints. Cow
stable taints are the most inexcusable
of all. He had been called in to see
some cheese at store in his village.
The grocer said he had bought some
,cheese of one Of MIR. DIS neighbors
which did not quite suit his customers,
and he wanted to know what was
the matter with them. Il looked at
the cheeses,' said Mr.. D., rubbed
a little between my fingers, smelt of it,
tasted it, and told the grocer to let me
go-I did not want to say anything
about it." "But," said the man. I'VE
want you to tell US what ails this
cheese. 1t cuts we'll and feels we'll, but
there is something peculiar about it. -
'"Well,' y said l, eff l must tell you. Mr..
did not put in quite enough milk
with his cow manure to make good
cheese of it,"
A CHEAP REFRIGERATOR. 4
A correspondent of the Country
Gentleman says: Ice boxes. with their
various compartments, are gotten up
quite expensivelv but one can be made
with little cost. The cheapest kind
know of is about the size of and re-
.sembles on the outside an ordinary tool
chest; within, there are pieces of wood
fastened on for supports, and lining of
zinc put in, the space between the zinc
and the wood being filed with pounded
charcoal. This filling must be all
around, in the cover as we'll as the bot
tom and sides. In the ends of the box,
0eats of zinc are soldered on, and
shelves of perforated zinc or wire, or of
wooden Stats. are slipped in. For a
rack to put the ice on, take four stats
about four inches long. and nail them
firmly to little block of plank set
this block down Qike an inverted kitch-
en- table, in a basin, and put it in the
middle space in the box. between the
rows Of shelves. To make q piece Of
ice do the greatest amount Of service
and last the longest possible time, wrap
it closely in several thicknesses Of Aan-
mel and lay it on the rack; it will not
melt nearly so fast as if laid on the bot.