Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1902-12-01
IMPORTANCE OF
THE COW STABLE
SANITARY CONDITIONS OF THE
GREATEST MOMENT
IF WE OBTAIN GOOD MILK
II. B. GurIer, Notable Among Dairy
Men, Talks ForcefuI!y on Theme
of Prime Interest in Every Home
doors and Dirt in Milk Wholly In
excusabIe.

H. B. Gurler of De Kalb, treasurer of
the National Dairy Union, and one Of
the foremost dairymen in Illinois, be-
lieves that the best milk is that which
udder. I believe, he says when one
has selected and bought his COWS in
the manner l have described, if he is
going to get as profitable a herd as
possible, he must test them with the
scales and BabcOck for year. He
will perhaps find that, although he
may be one Df the best judges of COWS,
he has got some Improbable ones that
have to be discarded.
By this it will be seen that a dairy
man, if he obtains the greatest pos
sible profit out Of his business, must
be constantly selecting COWS and it
will pay him immensely to study care
fully and minutely the peculiarities of
form of all his best producers, and he
will be convinced that there is best
dairy form as we'll as best beef form,
and that they never go together in the
same animal.
| believe we are at the beginning of
a revolution in the construction Of san
itary COW stables. And it is time we
realized that the COW stable is a place
where human food is prepared.
1t is burning shame on we dairy
men that so much time and money has
to be spent by experimeHters and man
Il
chinery to cover up or bridge over our
faulty work For it is our faulty
work that has made it necessary to
pasteurize milk and cream. How
many of us could eat a breakfast pre-
pared in the COW stable where the
milking is done? There certainly is
no article of human food that will alb
sorb more from the surrounding at
mosphere than milk, and the other
breakfast foods would be much less
contaminated than is the milk. Per
haps we might offer the excuse that we
all right; l certainly can think of no
other excuse to offer, and that one
will not be accepted longer by the in
telligent public. l have met per
sons that we're so accustomed to the
cowy odor and flavor that they were
suspicious of milk that did not contain
it. This is a little rough on hui
mainly and perhaps should not have
been told here. [ know of a Chicago
doctor telling lady that he could
blindfold her and lead her through
certain COW stable and she would have
no suspicion that she was in COW
stable. This shows what it is possible
to accomplish. And it is entirely
practicable to have our stables in
such sanitary condition that the ex-
pert will not detect the odor of the
stable in the milk.
To show the susceptibility Of milk to
contracting odors I will give a little
incident in my dairy school work. I
was training the class in detecting
bad flavors in the milk by warming
samples to a temperature that would
cause a little vapOr to rise from it,
and passed the warm samples around
the class One of the students de-
tected the flavor of the hog-pen one
day, and I also did. This matter was
followed to the farm where the milk
was produced~an we learned that the
patron practiced putting his nights
milk in an open vat in a room where
there was nothing else, thinking he
was doing the very best that he could.
This room was about so feet from his
hog-pen, and to cool the room he
opened a window on the side toward
the hog-pen; the milk absorbed the
hog-pen OdOr and brought it to the
dairy school and we were able to de-
tect it in the milk.
once made the statement at a far
mer's convention, when talking on
dairy matters, that the public con-
sumed more filth in their milk than in
any other one article of food. At the
close of the session the dean of an ag-
ricultural college said to me that I
might safely have said that We were
consuming more than in all other
articles Of food.
We deserve to be indicted by the
public for such careless work, and we
will be, too, in the near future, if we
do not mend our ways.
The healthy COW will produce us a
perfect food if we will do our part
we'll. Then the Up-tO-eiate buttermaker
will be happy producing butter that
will delight our customers and compel
the judges to devise new score card.
There is more profit to high grade
work than there is in low grade work.
A man has more respect for his bust
ness and for himself, and everybody
thinks better of him unless it be some
Jealous competitor who cannot or will
not keep up in the race.
The COW stable should be located
where good drainage can be secured,
and the drainage should not flow to-
ward the dwelling house, as there are
times when the ground is frozen that
surface water cannot reach the tile,
to be carried off, and must run off on