Hutchinson gazette., 1901-06-27

MOuern DAIRY Practlce,' treating OF
the infection OF milk, says:
A too long stall may indirectly be
tho cause OF the infection OF the milk.
The hlndquarters Of the COW will un-
der this condition be soiled by tho
manure when she lies down, This IA
especially the case with the tail, TO
which particular attention must always
be paid In cleaning the cows The
COW will often swing her tail during
the milking, and, II 1t is solled, filth
Will Of course be spread to all Sides |
have found that the milk may In this
manner be mixed with dirt OF the most
offensive kind.
AT farm whore the stalls were too
short, and where there was no litter
In the liquid manure gutter, the cows
tails were always wet and dirty; when
the cows lay down their tails lay In
the cutters, which did not thoroughly
drain OFF the liquid manure, Although
the gutt0rs were new, holes and re-
cesses had already formed In them In
which the urine and liquid manure re-
NAMED and formed pools, by apply
Ing wooden shavings In the guttera
the difficulties were later on avoided,
The cows could then be kept clean,
and the milk became, as n consequence,
cleaner, and kept better than was pre-
vlously the case. | have met with
liquid manure cutters Of even worse
defects than the ones described, In q
large number OF stables In our country
On another farm, considered a dairy
farm par excellence, all the stalls
were too short for tho large, fine cows,
so that the headquarters and the tails
always lay In tle low gutter; the I'D
ders Of number OF the COWS were
also dirty, What made the matter
still worse was the fact that the stalls
were lower than the bnrnyard outside,
whore the manure heap was placed, AS
consequence the liquid manure gut
ter was always full Of urine, Only u
couple Of months after the herd came
In from pasture, these sad conditions
had conquered all the efforts OF the
farm hands to keep the animals clean
to such an extent that the hindquarters
and parts of the udders were covered
with a thick manure crust, and the tall
formed one solid sticky mass. How
impure the milk from this farm mus
have been can easily be imagined. !
cannot give any exact data as to what
extent II was mixed with impurities,
as was not able to examine 1t closely;
but, judging from the large quantity oil
slime gathered in the separator bowl
when the milk was separated, 1t was
as one would expect from Its ante
cedents
Conditions similar to those given
above, although not carried to such an
extreme, may be found on other ol
our dairy farms'--l. O., on farms where
they try, ut least in the stable, to main
tain high standard Of cleanliness
What can, then, be expected OF th'
COW stables in the places where they
do not try ut all TO follow the Iunda
mental principle Of modern daIrying-
strict cleanliness? The poor animals
are kept in such places In undIsturDeC
peace throughout the winter uncardec
and uncleaned; they are Furthermore
often confined in darkness for severa
months, us the very small windows
are often wholly showed or frozen over
Cow stables where such bad conditions
exist are atill found In many places
and still people wonder that tho mill
coming from these primitive stables u
of poor quality, and that the products
made from It do not keep we'll