The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1909-07-16
His Motto to Be Impressed Up
on Dairymen, He States,
Will Be ''PIenty Sunlight,
Air and Hot Water"
STARTS INSPECTION
ROUNDS NEXT WEEK
1t Is Intention of New City Of
ficiaI to Inspect Every Local
Milk Supplying Dairy Once
a Month.

Plenty of sun light, air and hot wat.
er is what DR.. Stewart, the new milk
and dairy inspector will advocate. He
expects to begin his first round of the
dairies that furnish milk for consump-
ton In the city next week. He has es-
tablished an Office at the city building
and has issued twenty-one licenses to
dairymen. He expects to issue about
a dozen more. Not only the dairymen
but all dealers who supply milk for
distribution are required to take out q
license.
After his work of inspection begins.
DR.. Stewart thinks it will be next
thing to impossible for him to keep
regular Office hours. He says he
does not see how he can be at the Of
flee and also out in the country. For
this reason he is anxious that all milk
dealers who have not obtained licenses
visit his Office this week and secure
the necessary document. The ordin-
ance under which the ONCE of milk
inspector is created provides a penalty
for selling or disposing of milk with
out a license.
Stewards Intentions
1t is the intention of the inspector to
visit each dairy once a month. Every
COW will be inspected and tested. The
premises will be looked over with care.
1t will be required that the barns and
milk houses be scrupulously clean.
Utensils, aerators, buckets and cans
must be kept in the sunlight and
scrubbed with hot water.
Dr.. Stewart is an ardent advocate
Of lime and whitewash as disinfectant
agencies. He says he expects to be
told by several of the dairymen they
rent their places and can not induce
the owners to make improvements. In
those cases he will require that rent
ers make the best Of. the situation. He
believes each dairyman could afford to
bear the expense of lime and brush.
With tho whitewash the barns can be
kept neat and clean.
Wants Ventilation.
The inspector believes ventilation Is
one of the greatest aids to cleanliness.
He will expect the barns to be pro-
vided with as many windows as pos
sible. He will have them put in so
they can be opened or closed as the
weather conditions may demand. A
fresh breeze blowing through the
barn always is good thing for the
cows and also for the milk.
The use of the aeratOr as soon as
the milk is taken from each is desired.
The inspector says some dairymen are
accustomed to wait until they finish
milking then pour the milk through
the aerator. But he will advise differ.
entity. He says the sooner the animal
heat is removed from the milk the
its qualities for remaining sweet.
A Scoring Card.
When all dairymen have been noti-
fled of what will be expected OF them
the inspector will have prepared al
scoring card. Each dairy will be re-
quired to score fifty points or its milk
will be prohibited from sale. Each
month the newspapers will be provided
with tho list of dairies and scores
made at the last inspection. The same
system of scoring as devised and used
by the United States department of
agriculture, dairy division will be
used locally. Each dairyman will be
furnished with a code of rules and
regulations regarding conditions about
his premises.
DR.. Stewart expects to cooperate
with the dairymen. He will give all
a fair chance he says. He will not
follow the style Of the state inspec-
tor, who year ago created such a
disturbance by his tactics. Different
conditions at different places will be
ed no difficulties will confront the in