Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1892-01-21
FACTS FOR THE FARMER.
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INSTRUCTIVE MATTERS PER-
TANNING TO THE FARM.
Advantages Of Diversified Farming
keep the Dairy Sweet
Watering Horses'--Horses
Teeth-Area Of Grain
Culture.
Keep the Dairy Sweet,

Milk is one of the most sensitive of
substances to all bad odors. 1t read
lily absorbs every ill smell that floats
in the atmosphere about it. And it
not only absorbs and retains disa-
greeable odors, but it is equally hos
pitable to disease germs, which it will
take in and convey carefully to the
consumer. The products made from
milk retain whatever impurities were
incorporated with it.
So when city folk boast of the "pure
country milk" and delicious butter,
"fresh from the country" it isn't at
all certain that their boastings are not
vain.
One who recently made a tour of OBJ
rvation through dairy region be-
came convinced that the health OF the
people who consume dairy products
and who does not?-requires that the
creameres, cheese factories and the
COWS that give the milk should be
placed under the strictest legal sur
One of the most Objectionable feat
ures in connection with butter and
cheese factories is the inevitable pig
pen. 1t is rarely, if ever, absent.
But nothing could be more objection
able, for when, as is frequently the
case, the pigs attached to the factory
are fed entirely on milk, the stencil
arising from the pen is simply intoler-
able. For added to the natural odors
OF the pigs and their excrement is that
OF decaying milk, mbinatlon
whose i'll fragrance may be detected,
like the smell OF battle, "afar off,
Ii the pigsty must be maintained as
an economic adjunct of the butter
and cheese factory it should be kept
as clean as water and fumigation can
make it, especially if for convenience,
it adjourns the factory building. But
the purity OF the milk product i'm
perativeIy demands that it should
not be in close proximity to the build
ing. 1t is almost impossible-and
practically it is impossible-to keep
the pen so clean that no deleterious
odors will arise from it. The
hog pen should be located at
d distance-a good long distance
from the factory, in spite OF the in
convenience, and then be kept scrupu-
lously clean. So greatly is the public
health involved in this matter that it
should be made an offense against the
law, as well as to the olfactories, to
keep a foul-smelling pigsty in the
neighborhood OF a creamery or cheese
factory.
In fact the dairy factory needs fire.
quent inspection, not only for this
but for other reasons. The public
safety requires that the buildings
should be free from all Injurious ex-
haIations from whatever cause they
proceed. Nor should the inspection
stop with the factory. The sources OF
the milk should be regularly looked
into to ascertain whether the COWS
are in sound condition and whether
the milk is properly guarded against
filthy odors and equally filthy solid
substances.
Not far from where we write milk
man keeps q small herd OF cows. His
stable, although within the limits OF a
rural city, is SO filthy that the
stencil often fills the entire neighbour
hood. The COWS ale rarely cleaned,
and it is inevitable that some OF the
manure that covers their TANKS
should get into the milk pail. This is
but a sample OF many diaries from
which milk is sent out, either directly
to consumers or to the creamery or
cheese factory. There ought to he
some means Of compelling cleanliness
when self-respect and decency do not
enforce it.