The Washington times., 1910-10-26
Secretary Wilson ForbidS
Any Not PaSteurized and
Tuberculin Tested.
HUNDRED GALLONS
EACH DAY USED
Employees Assured of Pure and
Healthful Substance for
Lunch Hereafter.

After today no milk will be allowed
sold and delivered within the buildings
occupied by the Department Of Agrf-
culture unless it is certified, pasteuriz-
ed, or from tuberculin tested cows.
An order to this effect was promuI-
gated today by Secretary of Agricul-
ture James Wilson. II viii be put into
effect Immediately.
The department seeks by this means
10 reiterate its stand that milk supplied
IN the District must be from healthy
COWS, properly fed. and properly handled
and promptly cooled"
The special order says: In order
that no milk containing extraneous
matter, raw milk from COWS not known
TO be free from tuberculosis, or milk
OF unknown origin may be sold within
certain buildings occupied by the De-
partment Of Agriculture In Washing
ton, D. G, it is hereby ordered that no
milk be sold within any building occupi-
ed by the Department Of Agriculture
which Is not equal to the classification
as defined in Bureau of Animal Indus
try Circular ia"
Hundred Gallons a Day.
It is estimated more than a hundred
gallons Of milk is delivered daily 10 en-
ployes in the department buildings for
luncheon purposes Much OF this milk
is said 20 be from dealers who are SELL
ing raw milk without a guarantee Of
tuberculin tested COWS
One dealer alone. II was said, will be
cut of from the sale Of more than 3o0
pint bottles of milk a day.
Circular No. ia, quoted in the order,
was sent today to all dairynen serving
milk to the department clerks.
Besides provisions that cows must be
healthy and that the milk shall be
handled in a cleaniy manner and cooled
promptly the circular requires that 'aI
persons engaged in N-ndling milk musr
be free from communicable diseases.
All receptacles into which the milk
passes. and all utensils and apparatus
used in handling IL must be perfectly
clean The milk after having been
properly cooled must be kept cool until
II IS delivered 20 the consumer"
a copy Of this circular was today
placed in the hands Of the Chamber
Of Commerce committee, which Is ~
vesugating the milk situation in Il q
District
Three Legal Grades.
Its provisions regarding what consti-
tute desirable milk follow.
The conference recommends that
there be recognized by law three grades
OF milk, as follows.
Glass l. Certified milk.-The use of
this term should be limited to milk
produced at dairies subjected to periodic
inspection and the products Of whiCl.
are subjected TO frequent analyses. The
cows producing such milk must be
properly fed and watered, free from
tuberculosis, as shown by the tuberculln
test, and from al other communicable
diseases, and from all diseases and con-
ditions whatsoever likely TO deterioratc
the milk. They are to be housed in
clean stables, properly ventilated, and
10 be kept clean. All those who come
in contact with the milk must exercise
SCTupUlOus cleanliness, and such per
sons must not harbOr the germs Of ty-
phoid fever. tuberculosis, diphtheria,
and other infections liable 20 be con
VCyed by the milk Milk must be drawn
under all precautions necessary to
strained and cooled, packed in Sterilized
bottles. and kept at "A temperature not
exceeding 80 degrees Fahrenheit until
delivered to the consumer. Pure water,
as determined By chemical and bac-
THEOLOGICAL examination, is To be pro-
Vided for use throughout the dairy
farm and dairy. Certified milk should
not contain more than 10C90 bacteria
per cubic centimeter. and should not
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