The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1910-05-27
THE PURITY OF MILK.
N Interview with a Dairyman Of
Twenty Years Experience.

N Interview with a Dalryman OF
Twenty Years Experience.
Attracted by the all-important sub
iect Of Pure Food and all that 1t i'm
piles, this story is written to demon
sIrate that much care Is exercised and
all precautions taken to insure to the
consumer the proper quality OF milk.
Strange as It may seem to those
who have learned or heard of steril-
ling and pasteurizing methods, the
fact cannot be denied that proper at
IenIion to the cattle: grooming, wash
Ing and the clearly stable; where,
particularly from November TO May,
only good, wholesome milk-producing
foods must be fed and the yield of
milk watched as to quantity and quail
Ity. Percentage of protein and fats
must be determined, knowing that the
RID examination of the milk by the
inspectors may cause IL TO be con-
demned Il not up to the standard.
Al tend to make dairying one of the
most exacting lines of business.
One of the leaders in this business
n Baltimore is Mr.. Basil Gardner, OF
the Walnut Grove Dairy, and from
may prove interesting.
Ills method Is not the new one, but
! marked Improvement over the old
way.
On his principal farm, which II
only four miles from the Pennsylvania
border, he has a large herd of high
grade cows which are MIXED at day
light and the milk is then permitted
10 cool 10 about fifty degrees temper
AZURE. being aerated before shipment.
From about sixty other farms In
Baltimore and Carroll counties, which
he personally inspects, additional sup
ply Il drawn. and from all sources he
handles about forty-four hundred
quarts daily.
This business started from a modest
beginning in 1890, at which time his
first days sales were only three gal
Ions. whereas al this time he delivers
about eleven hundred gallons daily.
Several reasons may be given for
this the milk Is sold Within a few
hours after the cows are MIXED and
muat contain four per cent. butter fat
md always stand inspection. Tho
nhurng or cans are thoroughly washed
and steamed. ~ are the measures. etc.
A8IHH3HH II 8AEAAAH hhNN ~ @A#hA#
work Of any kind 20 do: they there
fore keep clean and free from offensive
odora. and that Is imperative. aB milk
+ known to be one OF the greatest alb
HorbanIa and will in n few minutes
become tainted.
Mr. Gardner In ayerse 10 bottles for
household use, as II ~ his thought
hat they may be the means Of carry
- =. 10 Il -
rue that sometimes bottle or tWu
HiIna through without the usual intend
II cleaning aud sterilizing.
lie alao claims that the use OF large
aana 80 big that the cleaning process
cannot - overlooked. and the fact
IIal Il IL absolutely necessary 10
clean The cans thoroughly for hts own
protection from loaA BY faint. together
With The fact that By his methods milk
IF the day that II II milked n delivered
= ar better than the use uf bottled sold
NH thai may look, but not be clean,
mi IN which. generally, the milk sold
i tint from proceeding day. az the
routine aterIllzing process makes II
impossible to deliver mornings milk
On The morning milked.
Is creamery Is thirty miles from
baltimore. in Fifth district Of Balu-
more county His principal farm Is
one mile from Wynbrook. on Western
Maryland X. r.. and consists OF Isl
arnaa Of choice pasture land.
Under his method he IL enabled 10
deliver ID the consumer absolutely
pure milk and cream at much lower
eoat than the product OF othsfa. put
out In bottles. rs the added cost Of
freight. bottles and the expensive pro-
eeHa through which the milk Is put
add n it cost considerably and COM
psl the sale at higher prices than sold
b. him.
About 600 to 800 dozen eggs are
shipped weekly as well ~ thoroughly
naatenrized butter.