The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1896-08-27
RULES FOR CREAMERY PATRONS,
Such Regulations Must Be Enforced if
Success Is Achieved.


Success Is Achieved.
Rule First. Have good, healthy COWS,
good, warm stables for them in the
winter and plenty of pure water for
them to drink. Salt them two or three
times week, or, better yet, keep salt
where they can get it at any time. Milk
from fresh COWS must not be sent to the
creamery until the calf is five days old;
also milk from COWS which give bloody
milk must not be sent to the factory.
Rule Second. Milk must be drawn
from the COWS in the most clearly man.
ner and strained through in strainers
with wirecloth bottom.
Rule Third. Tin is the only utensil
to be used to milk in.
Rule Fourth. The milk must be thor
oughly cooled Immediately after it is
drawn from the COW by placing the
cans in which the milk is contained in
tub or tank of cold water deep enough
to come up to the height of the milk in
the cans, containing at least two or
three times as much water as the milk
to be cooled. The milk is to be stirred
until the animal heat is expelled. Never
stir your milk with a wooden stick or
paddle. The nights milk should be
cooled to temperature of so degrees or
below, and the mornings to 60 degrees
or below. The water will have to be
changed frequently in hot weather to
accomplish this cooling.
Rule Fifth.-The milk must not be
kept near any foul yard Or stable or any
place where injurious odor comes, as it
readily absorbs all odors. Great care
must be taken at all times to keep the
cans and milk free from all dirt and i'm
purities of any kind
Rule Sixth.-The nights and morn
ing's milk must be kept separate, es.
pecially in hot weather.
Rule Seventh. can covers must
be left off until ready to start for the
creamery. Put on at nights clean
cloth, or, better yet, mosquito bar, to
keep out the flies and dirt.
Rule Eighth. The skimmilk must be
emptied from the cans as soon as it is
received at home. Any one who does
not follow rules will be fined cents for
each pound Of milk brought to the
creamery that day, which shall be taken
out Of his milk check.
Rule Ninth. ALI pals, cans, strain
ers, etc., should be washed in the fol-
lowing manner as soon as possible after
being used: First rinse in cold water;
then wash with as warm as can be
borne with the hands, using clean
cloth. Be sure that every can, pail,
strainer, etc., is thoroughly washed out
side and inside. Give the seams partic-
ular attention. Then scald with water
that boils and set them out in the air
to drain until needed; also see that
your cooling tank is kept clean.
Rule Tenth. that your cows I'D
ders are clean before milking.
Rule Eleventh. Dipping the fingers
down into the milk or milking in the
hand to wet the cows teats with is an
objectionable offense, and none but
filthy mixer will do it.
Rule Twelfth. -Milk must be deliv-
cred to the creamery four days in a
week in the winter and every day in the
summer that the creamery is in opera
ton except Sunday.
Rule Thirteenth. NO milk shall be
made into butter or cheese which, in
the Judgment of the foreman, will be
damage to the general interests of the
patrons. -Hoard's Dairyman.