The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1906-12-28
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THE CARE OF MILK
Article Written BY President
Sweet Of the State Dairy
Association.

One Of the primary principles Of
success il tie dairy business is
cleanliness. Unless tho raw
material is delivered to the
separator in q cleanly condition the.
product from the milk cannot,
from natural causes, oe OF the best.
It will be our object in this ad-
dress to give some of the methods
of handing the COW, her feed, and
care OF the utensils of the dairy
Our method may not be the best,
but it will be submitted as it is
and you can draw your own con-
illusions. %.'''' A1@ ..~. II,
In the first place. the COW
should be reasonably sleek. her,
hair should be perfectly healthy
giving her a general appearance Of
health. Her stable should be- stu
ated 70 she will have plenty Of sun
light, and be kept perfectly dry.
The stable should be provided with
drop behind the COW sufficiently
large to hold the dropping for day
or two, and she should have plenty
of bedding 80 her sides and TANKS
will not become solid at any time
with animal refuse. Plenty of bed
ding can be used and as it becomes
a little fine and trodden to pieces it
can be used as an absorbent for the
liquid manure, which is very valu-
able as fertilizer and should be
ga we'd and carried back to the land.
Usually a little dust straw or small
pieces Of dirt or animal refuse Will
sticks to the hair on the COW a. she
gets up. This can be removed best
by having a small piece OF gunny
sack at hand and wipe the side of
the COW and the udder little with
this cloth. It being little rough
is much better to remove anything
that sticks to her side, udder or
teats than anything we have ever
used. Even il she has laid down in
the manure in the yard, if this
gunny sack is used it Is the hest
thing to clean the udder of anything
we have every found; it can. be
used dry. We very much like to
wash the udder and teats of q COW
for the reason that the operation of
washing causes the, COW to give
down the milk and the process TAX
ing some little time to finish the
washing thorouhly and to wipe the.
udder and teats, J. we have noticed
that after a cow gives down the
milk once and she is not MIXED at
that time she will not give down as
we'll the second time, and the con
tinuance Of the washing process for
some time will cause the cow to
dry of much sooner than she would
otherwise. There are cases when
the udder and teats need to be wash
ed. The water used should be
warmed and the washing should be
done gently and speedily and dried
with cloth at. once after the wash
ing and the milking commenced as
soon as possible after the wiping is
finished, We would always advise
milking in the stanchions. Let
the barn have many windows and
doors, and while milking, + the
windows all open, so; q draught OF
air can al ways circulate. through
the stable. The air should be; q
pure as possible in the stable, using |
care to not disturb hay or any feed
during the time Of milking so the
milk will become contaminated
with as little Of the bacteria around !
the barn as possible. ~. ~ i
The person who milks should be
clean OF his person, have clean
hands and milk dry; wet hand
milking is thing Of the past with |
the dairy man who is keeping up
with the times and furnishing
clean, pure milk.
All utensils pals, strainers and
cans should be- scrupulouly clean,
first after using having been rinsed
out with cold or luke warm water
after which they should washed in
warm water with some good cleans
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