The Monitor-register., 1897-04-09
W00dst0Wn, N. J..
Fruits, Shades and Ornamentals for sac
at HedgefteG at one-fourth of agents.
prices. Plant during April.
Pure iIk.


A Philadelphia correspondent sends
US the following items taken from the
Ledger, showing the necessity of serving
mill in bottles:
An idea that is fast gaining a hold
among the consumers of milk is that the
product must not be dipped from the can
but nus be served without handling by
the way in glass bottles.
This, besides having the endorsement
OF Major AlvoId, Chief of the Dairy Divi.
sion OF the United States Department. of
Agriculture, and his assistant, Professor
Ii. a. Pearson, has been proven in practice
to be feasible and unobjectionable.
Professor Pearson says of it: The
cieanest and most satisfactory way of
delivering milk is in glass jars or bottles.
Every pearson who is served in this way
should be certain that the Jars are
properly cleaned as soon as emptied. and
the dealer should clean and sterilizs them
as soon as they are collected each day.
Bottles are easily cleaned, zach one is a
measure and prevents over or under meas
uring. and each bottle of milk is known
to contain all the cream belonging to it.
Bottles do not hide dirt in the milk,
and, if they are filled with fresh milk and
are allowed to stand quietly a few hours,
cream will usually show at the time of
delivery. They save the milk from
being unnecessarily exposed, and if they
are hlled in the country the milk does
not come in contact with the city air
until it is in the house of the consumer.
This matter is of considerable import
ance, as it has been shown that bacteria
are very abundant in the atmosphere of
cities, while in clean country districts
hut fauu ~ e~,-l - ~
sealed bottles decreases the opportunity
for adulteration. Some serving a high
class trade with milk, for which special
claims of purity are made, seal the Jars as
soon as they are filled, with paper labels
on which the time of milking is stamped,
and these must be broken before the jar
can be opened.
1t is an excellent plan, and practically
removes all chances of the milk being
tempered with by driver or servant, and
places all the responsibility on the one
who bottles the milk; yet this is not
effective unless the seal is so prepared
and guarded as to prevent it's being re.
moved and replaced, or Gcounterfeited.
Objections to bottles are:They are hea y
fragile, and so useful in the kitchen that
they are not always promptly returned.
1t is extremely difficult to get the last
trace of dirt out of milk; some of the
filth is in such fire particles that it will
60 through fine strainers, and late r settle
to the bottom of the containing vessel
while the cream is rising. This sediment
is Objectionable and should be kept out
in the first place, but it's presence is not a
good argument against the use of jars.
The fresher the milk when bottled the
more easily the dirt settles, for the same
reason that the fat then rises more easily
There should be no sueh impurity, but if
it is to be present it is better to have it 10
the bottom of the jar then distributed
through the milk and held by its visoos-
ity, as may be the case when the milk is
in large cans and stirred frequently to
keep the cream evenly mixed iu. Ssdi
ment is got rid of in some casSA by allow
ing the milk to stand = whil8 in large
CABS or watts and then drawing it off care
fully for bottling. Filters for straiuink
milk are now used with some success.
Other things being equal, the price of
milk should depend on Its quality. 1t is
most unreasonable for milk containing
but three per cent. of fat to sell for the
same price per quart as give per cent.
milk. Many regard all milk as the same,
and are satisfied as long as it is sweet and
cheap; they are unwilling to pay more for
one quality than another.
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