The Newtown bee., 1907-01-18
COMMISSIONER AVERlLL'S RE.
 PORT.

PORT.
 A PRACTICAL DOCUMENT WHICH
 SHOULD INTEREST EVERY FARMER.
 The annual report of Hon Heman o. Averin, commissioner on domestic animals for Connecticut, has been laid upon our desk. It is practical busi ness document, and contains inform ation which should interest every dairyman in the state. On the ques- tion of Bovine Tuberculosis, MT Aver ill says:
 The experience and observations of the commissioner during the past seven years cOnvinceS him that bovine tuberculosis is stable disease, that is very rarely if ever communicated from one animal to another while COWS are in the pasture, unless it be to suck ing calf, and that it is safe to assert that this terrible scourge will never be permanently removed from the dairy herds of the state until more sanitary conditions are introduced 1n- to a great majority of the sta bles where the dairy COW is housed. Every consumer who purchases his daily SUD- ply Of milk has it in his power to do much to hasten this much desired re- formation. Consumers who are pay ing less than eight cents per quart for milk during the stabling season for COWS, may rest assured that they are doing little or nothing to encourage the improvement of the conditions surrounding the production of milk. Owing to the increased cost of living, the higher prices of grain and feeds, the carctty ot competent farm labor and the extra amount of labor reuuir- ed to produce milk and care for 1t un- der sanitary conditions, the cost of producing milk that is clean, pure and wholesome has largely increased and the consumer should be willing to pay good living price for such an article. At present it is too often If not usually the case that the man who produces milk from cheap COWS that are poorly fed and cared for in dark, damp and filthy sta bleS receives the same price for his milk as the man does who pro duces clean, pure and wholesome ar ticle. It would seem to the COmmls- s!oGer that it would be for the interest alike of the producer and the cOnsum CT of milk and cream if every city and borough in the state would appoint a competent man as milk inspector with power to inspect all milk and cream sold or offered for sale in such city or | borough and to inspect all animals producing such milk and cream, the stables or places where such animals are kept, the dairies and other places
 where milk or cream is kept, handled, sold or produced, whether the same be | within the limits of such city or bOr- ough or not. The work of city milk
 inspector would be of great value to the producer if he would have blanks, | with printed directions on one side,
 for scoring the conditions as found at | every place inspected. The condition
 of the COWS as regards health, thrift
 ness and cleanliness should be separ.
 ately scored, as should the conditions
 whitewashed walls and ceilings, venti
 lation and floors. The barnyard
 should be scored and the water ano
 the feed, also the milkers and the
 milk utensils and the conditions un der which the milk is strained, cooled quired by the New York County Medi
 cal society for the production of certi fled milk are found, the total score
 would sum up 100. The markings fol
 these ideal conditions should be print
 ed on the blank so that the milk pro
 the inspectors report left with him
 the markings given him by the in
 spector side by side with the idea
 score printed on the card. Tht
 would more clearly indicate to hin
 where and how he could better hi
 amount of talk and argument by the
 inspector. Such a scoring as suggest ) ed would be good thing of itself, bu
 it would not be sufficient. The pro ducer should be paid for his milk o , cream according to his score card. l } than 50 out of possible 100 his mil
 should not retail for more than a eel tain price, say six cents per quart;
 he scores from 50 to 60, seven cents l and so up to 12 or Is cents, the pric of certified milk The grades and tn ] prices for the several grades would ne ] ceSsarily have to be fixed and adjuste l to meet the fluctuations of supply an t demand. The scheme here very rough , ly outlined would give consumers a | opportunity to secure the grade ( } milk or cream that will suit thei
 taste or their pocket books, and it wi Q at the same time be an 1nducement f the dairyman to improve the cond s tions surrounding the production ( ] milk. There has been a nOticeabl d improvement in the care of dair - COWS during the past few years. Ligh j. ing more and more attention from tn l. milk producer. .e,--
 t Cows will eat better, feel better an , be healthier as we'll as yield nor Q milk when kept in a stable which 8 light, clean and we'll ventilated tha e in a stable where the opposite cond e tions prevail. Milk will be clear - pure, sweet and wholesome if produ, l. ed, drawn and handled in a sanitar e stable and the consumer of either th t milk or the product of such mil r should be willing to pay a good Twin l. price for it.
 :, Speaking on the care of COWS, M e Averill says: As part of the Urea V ment at the sanitarium is to keep tn t human patient out of doors as muc }. as possible, the dairyman might na g urally think that which is good for tt s human will be best for the bovine an j. that his COWS should be let out of th lJro 1Nt fvnf Io