Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-05-28
STATE HOUSE.
Bulletin on the |nvestiga-
ton Of Dairy Products.
Second Infantry Will Attend
maneuVerS in New York.
Bond Brook and Tributaries Closed
To All Fishing.
STATE HOUSE CALENDAR.
N-xt Meeting Of Governor and Council
Tuesday, May 81, at 10 A. M.

Bulletin No. 2, which has just been
issued from the dairy division of the
department of agriculture, and is a
very interesting number. In addition
to the investigation of dairy products
for the quarter ending March 81, 1910,
the bulletin contains sections of the
laws relating to the registration OF
milk dealers and to pure dairy
products. An interesting feature of
the bulletin is an article by C. w. Bar
Der, assistant dairy instructor, on
"Producton of Market Milk" the text
of which is in part as follows:
ReouiI ements-NoW that the sea-
son in which dairymen experience the
most trying difficulties in marketing
sweet milk is near at hand, each party
| should bear in mind two requisites in
| the production OF market milk, name
| ~, the prevention of dirt from gaining
| access to milk. and the immediate APP
| plicatiOn Of cold.
Conditions in the Barn.-To fulfill
| the first requisite the conditions in the
| dairy barn are of prime Importance
| The ceiling over the cows should be
| tightly sheathed with matched boards
So as to prevent dirt falling from the
moWs overhead; the walls should be
clean and the floor tight and i'm
pervious to water to a great extent;
| the manger should be so constructed
| as to be easily swept out and cleaned.
| Further, the platform on which the
cows stand should be raised a few
inches in order to keep the animals
clean. All in all the barn should be
so constructed as to be readily cleaned
| with little labor and at the same time
free from dust and other contaminat-
ling conditions.
| Clean CoWS.-The cows should be
brushed and kept clean and, in order to
accomplish this with, the least labor
hay should be fed after milking rather
than before, owing to the great amount
of dust which fills the air at the time
of feeding. 1t is also an excellent
plan to mosten and wipe the udder
with a damp cloth just before milking
in order to remove the loose dirt and
hairs which always fall at the time of
milking. The purpose is to prevent
las much as possible the access of dirt
into the milk pail.
Milk PailS.-In the choice of milk
pals the narrow top pail should be
fused in preference to the common
large open pail because of the greater
Iamount of dirt which the hood of the
former type will keep out. All seams
and cracks of each pail should be filled
with solder and finished smoothly so as
to be readily cleansed and sterilized.
| Mlking.-The mixer should be
Clearly in person and clad in clothes
free from loose dirt which is apt to
find access in the milk pail. He should
have clean, dry hands; wetting the
Hands with milk is a most unclean
practice and should not be permitted
in any dairy.
| Remove the Milk from the Stables
Milk absorbs Odors readily. For this
reason it should be removed i'm
lmediately to the milk room to be
cooled. Most Of the foul odors and bad
favors in milk can be traced to the
absorption of odors in poorly ventilat-
ed dairy barns and to the presence of
i foreign matter. Such odors as ema-
nate from fertilizer. ensilage and also
turnips are quickly absorbed by milk.
Cooling Milk.-In cooling milk and
for the storage of the same every
dairyman needs a liberal supply of ice
and a cooling tank for storage pur-
poses. In case, however. there is a
spring of cold running water near at
hand this will afford an excellent place
for cooling and storing milk. II kept
at temperature of so degrees or less
it will rema in sweet for days. bacterial
growth being retarded at so degrees
and amounting to very little at a tenn
perature less than As degrees. To cool
milk many dairymen now use an AGRA
tor and cooler in which the milk flows
over smooth surface cooled by means
of ice water, Aeration as applied to
milk simply means exposure to the air
! in order to cool and allow any odors
that may be present to pass off. This
practice has no advantages, but many
disadvantages, chief of which is the
exposure to contamination in contact