The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-04-25

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 cry fcrean). .. ... 24 1 The following fall below requirements Per ct. Per ct. Total l Name SpG Or. Fat. Water. Solids. Walker & Rice. 1924 80 904 9.6 Albert Rest'rant. 1920 1.2 95.6 s.6 Metropolitan
 | Manhattan Res
 taurant ........ 1O8s 2.s sss IT St. Nicholas Cafe 10S4 1.6 s99 10.1 l visited S. L. Brewster's dairy and found same in fair condition. Cows were in clean. healthy state and were being fed wholesome food. He is building new milk house. but 1t is not quite completed. The barn needs whitewashng, which will be 1 done at once. He has installed a new ice box, which is properly drained. The water supply is good and general improve ments are being made Methods of cleansing dairy utensils only fair, but bet ter equipment will shortly be installed. I visited the Hillside Pasteurized Milk l company's plant, under the management 1 of Gridley X Lee, and found that much 1 improvement had been made. The prem ises have been altered and whitewashed. The large ice box, where milk and cream l is kept, was in good shape, and general l cleanliness was observed throughout. l I visited Hillside dairy farm. W. M. 1 Glass, proprietor. The cows are in fine shape and looking well. They are being fed a good, wholesome food. The milk | house has a new cement floor and is well drained. The born Is being whitewashed and general improvements are at present being accomplished which will not be at 1 all amss when finished
 I visited the Glen Iris Dairy company s depot and found it in sanitary condition. Their milk is brought to them from three parties, namely, w. l.. Burford, R. A. Berry and Baxter Rittenherry, and the milk is bottled at the depot.
 Much attention is undoubtedly needed at | the seat of all dairy industries namely, the dairy farm where milk is produced. General lack of intelligence seems to be one of the great drawbacks and knowl- edge of the laws which govern sanitation
 in the dairy industry is very slight.
 Some men are willing to learn and listen and try to produce a product that is fit
 for human food, but others do not care as long as they can make enough to live
 on. Dairymen who try to have a pure food for their customers are to be greatly incouraged and deserve a good price for
 their product because it's a business that
 needs constant care and hard work and
 those who have not the will to strive to
 do the right thing had better give it up.
 The department is not hard in it's demands
 on dairymen and is willing to help those
 who want to do right and will do it with
 pleasure as it's their duty to protect the
 health of the city of Birmingham. es-
 pecially that of the infants an dnvalids
 who are dependent in most cases on milk as their only food. Dairymen who can do
 right and wont will have to be made. and
 the city will use the law as it's weapon.
 The practice of filling milk bottles on the wagon is one that will certainly have to be stopped. Bottles are aften taken from houses and filled with milk on the wagon We do not know what the condi- tlons of health have been in that house but still the bottle Is filled and delivered to another customer and in this way sickness can easily be conveyed from one house to another as milk readily takes i up germs and in most cases is good medium in which they can multiply with great rapIdty. In this case I ask the consumer to help us by reporting any of this practice that comes to their knowl- edge
 Warm weather is now approaching and l through the summer months much blame l is often laid to the dairyman for sour and 1 tainted milk. In many cases the consum- | CT is solely to blame. for different req | sons. Milk is delivered in the early morn 1 ing and often stays in the sun for a couple 1 pi nOuISf ol II Hul III lut Sull, tHci lne warm air gets time to do its work. Then again milk is often placed in the ice box l in pitchers and unsealed bottles with other 1 foods and vegetables which have an odor | that milk is sure to absorb. MIX should i either be kept in the bottles or in glazed | earthenware pitcher with a cover, and | kept for milk alone The pitcher should not be washed with a greasy cloth and then wiped. After the pitcher is washed it should be scalded with boiling water and turned bottom up to dry of it's own accord.
 Many people do not consider milk as they should, and do not realize the value of it as food There is no need for our cafes to sell poor product. and if thls is looked into I think much more milk would be sold in the city. Respectfully submitted,
 GERALD w. HUMPHREY, l Assistant Milk Inspector