Evening star., 1902-02-22
Points of Perfection Attained
by Breuninger's Dairy.

INTO the milk. 1dSteur1ZlnS ana sep
arating the milk in order to get the
dirt out of it is not as good process
as keeping the dirt out of the milk in
the first place. Dirt, once in milk,
can never be entirely taken out Of
milk. | agree with DR.. Woodward,
the health officer, that Pasteurized
milk is not as good as pure sweet
milk that has not been Pasteurized.
Importance of Cooling.
Third, the milk must be cooled
properly. ust as soon as it comes
from the COW it must be cooled down
to point where it will keep; all the
animal heat must be driven out Of it ;
otherwise it will not have a good,
sweet flavor, and there will be diff
Guilty in shipping it in good condi-
ton for delivery in the city.
Milk that is not properly taken
care of as soon as it comes from the
COW has bad flavor and bad odor
and will not keep sweet at all.
Must Be Cooled.
1T is impossible to keep milk that
has not been properly cooled and
aereated sweet evenif the cans are put
into ice at once. l have studied the
milk question twelve years, and | am
convinced that there is no way in the
world Of furnishing pure, sweet milk
except by having the farmers, the
railroad companies and the dairymen
each do their share of the work.
Congress in framing legislation
should remember that the railroad
companies have a responsibility to
bear, and they should compel the
railroads to deliver milk in refrigera-
tor cars and deliver it promptly when
it reaches the city.
Senator Stewards Work.
Il have called Senator Stewards
attention to this, and l trust that he
will not let Congress forget the re-
sponsibility that rests on the railroad
companies. Railroads cannot de-
liver the milk at sixty degrees with
out refrigerator cars. The railroads
will receive milk which has been
cooled down to fifty-six or eight de-
grees and then deliver it to us in the
summer in the city at seventy or
eighty degrees, and even if we imme-
diately cool the milk down again to
under fifty degrees the milk has been
seriously injured with no fault at
tached to the dairyman.
'If Congress does not provide for
placing responsibility upon the rail
road companies as well as the milk
men the dairymen cannot bring milk
into the city and sell it under the
regulations Of the proposed law. The
time to discuss this question is now
it will be too late when summer is
here. Now Is the time to act and
have the railroads get ready to han
die milk in the summer as it should
be handled.
"Not only should the railroads,
farmers and dairymen do their share,
but the householder also. The
householder should put his milk in
covered receptacles and keep it COW
cred, and not permit it to become
contaminated by the odors of fish
and meat in the refrigerator. It
should be kept in refrigerator with
ice in it. A refrigerator without ice
won't keep milk sweet.
Good Work by the Health Dept.
"Now as to the dairymen-it takes
capital to run the milk business as it
ought to be run. This means that un-
der the operation of the new milk law
smaller dairymen will go out; great
many of them have, since the health
officers have taken up the milk ques-
ton. The health department has
cleaned up fully twenty per cent oi
the smaller dairies that were not
being conducted as they should be. .
Mr.. Breuninger showed me a
model arrangement that he has for
serving milk to his counter custom
ers-a handsome cabinet of quarter
ed oak with plate glass mirrors. He
showed up one Of these mirrors and
behind it is an Ice chest of zinc with
cover. He lifted up the cover and
there were the receptacles for the
milk and for the ice. By this ar