The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-05-26
SOME PURE MILK GOSSIP.
State journal Correspondent Says
Conditions Have Improved.
To the Editor of the state Journal:

To the Editor of the State Journal:
As the warm weather approaches
Topeka housewives are reminded of
last years pure milk agitation by the
fact that their milk becomes sour
sooner than when the days were cool
with borie acid and formaldehyde last
summer are beginning to look ask
ance at their milk and to quiz their
milkman.
There is no doubt, however. that
the agitation of last year has had
good effect, and Topeka people, with
any ordinary care and watchfulness'
need not be without good, pure, un-
tainted milk, unmixed with poisonous
preservatives.
Smaller dealers are preparing to
aerate and cool their milk as well as
to handle it with greater care, and
ply much better in grade than for
merly. The Topeka Pure Milk COM
pany is thoroughly equipped to
pasteurize all their milk and deliver
II IN steri1fzed bottIes Their nIant
located on Fourth and Jackson
streets, is perhaps the most modern
and best equipped plant of it's kind
west of the Missouri. With their
present facilities and an efficient
management. Topeka should receive
an article of milk above reproach.
One great drawback, however, is still
standing in the way of its success.
and that is the farmer himself. Many
farmers now milk their COWS in the
evening and put the milk in cans in
damp cellars or musty sheds over
night, exposed to numberleSS evil in
fiuences which it rapidly absorbs,
Next morning the cows are again
MIXED and the two milkings mixed,
the cans closed and set i'm the wagon.
The farmer then drives to town.
arriving there from . to IL a. M, the
milk all hot in the cans, full of for
cign doors and tavors and on the
methods cannot remove its taints or
bring back its purity or freshness.
What is needed is proper dairy edu-
cation of the farmer who Inilks, and
/ Topeka cannot hope to accomplish
this in one or even many summers.
All of these objections are over
come, however, in the modern dairy
farm, the first of which has just been
completed and is now in operation
one mile west of the city. This farm
| belongs to o. E Walker, who calls it
/ "Parkview Dairy Farm" This model
4 dairy farm is situated just at the end
of the West Sixth street macadam
road. The farm house itself stands
on q hill facing the road. 1t is a large
/ brick built semi-colonial style with
Ian immense veranda turning three
sides for over hundred feet. The fine
lawn with its lagoon and water mill,
! its shade trees and shrubs. stretches
/ down to the road.
At the back are the barns, stables,
and other buildings. which go to make
UP a veritable dairyman's paradise.
Mr.. Walker has about fifty cows. prin-
cipally Holstein and Jersey. He pas
| lures them on clover and blue grass.
His barns are built on the latest i'm
proved sanitary lines, made for com
/ fort and cleanliness He puts UP his
! own ice. raises thoroughbred chickens
ducks, turkeys and pigs. has a number
tof fine horses. A visit to his place is
one to be enjoyed and visitors are all
ways wecome.
The dairy end of the Parkview
farm is in charge of w S. Claypool
a graduate of Iowa Dairy institute and
an up-to-date dairyman. Mr.. Claypoo
and his assistants wash every COW be-
fore milking, steri1ize all milking
utensils with live steam, wear liner
clothes to milk in and seem to con-
slider that a milking shed should be
as clean as a kitchen.
The pasteurizing plant is Mr.. Clay
pools pride. It is a thick walled
building with smooth cement fiool
over which cold water runs continu-
ously. An upright six horse power
boiler, neat and coy, is in one cor
ner with its steam gauge registering
sixty pounds. A large turbine mill