The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1910-04-29
STRANGE TASTE IN MILK
More Frequently the Fault of the
Housekeeper Then the
Dairyman

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government would include the cues
ton How do you take care of youl
daily milk supply?" there would be
some surprises in store for the gen.
eral public. In spite of the expert.
ment station bulletins, agricultural
papers, lecturers, farmers Institutes
magazine articles, ETC., there are still
thousands of people who do not
know the right way to keep a bottle
or pitcher of milk.
Just within the last two weeks a
neighbor said to us. do Won still
take So-and-so's milk" We said we
did and expected to, indefinitely. as
we knew it was well handled. well"
said the inquiring lady, 81 just can't
stand it. 1t has tasted like the stable
all winter, and as | depend on it for
most of my nourishment, l will have
TO get 1t from somebody else-it's
FEARFUL We could not understand
it, and said that we knew the dealer
IN question had all the supplying
farms under constant SUPERVISION
took the best of care of the milk and
had perfectly clean creameries; also
that our milk had been perfectly
sweet and good and without any
peculiar taste or odor.
Thinking the matter over for a few
days, we asked the lady where she
Kept her milk and she said. "In the
celler. What else have you down
there?' 20, my cellar is as clean as
by dining room; it can't be the cellar
We assured her we had no doubt in
the world as to the cleanliness of the
cellar, but wanted to konw what was
down there beside the milk. 20,
some cabbage, turnips, potatoes. on
ions and things like that-and yes:
! think there is some turpentien,"
we then asked what the milk was
Kept in and found it was poured out
OF the bottle into an agate pail and
left with no cover on it in that cellar
Another fact that came out in the
course of the conversation was that
the gas leaked!
Our friend thought milk should
never be covered, and that she was
long the best possible thing to leave
t open in the cellar. And, mind Won
ne bouquet of onions, cabbage, tur-
Ups, turpentine' Illuminating gas and
n characteristic odor that had been
sathered by the milk was a taste
" the cow stable!' |;
we urged her to leave the milk in
ne bottle or, if she would not cd that
Keep 1t tightly covered. A week or
o after, We inquired as to the taste
L the milk and found it had greatly t
improved, naturally. G
mat was the idea of most intelli- t
ent woman. And the fault was, of G
curse, laid to the door of the milk e
ealer and the farmer, as it is al h
'ays, when anything is "off" with e
le milk.
AS TACT, man who makes and Il
he man who sells the milk are at S
he mercy of the ignorance Of the a
onsuming public all the time. The
asst majority know nothing of the c.
AZURE of milk or the way to take Fl
ire OF 1t; and all the care at the r
Lrm end, during transportation and d
the dealers hands go for little u
the finished product gets into the ft
ands OF someone who practically de- S
roys its delicate taste and sweetness h
numbering management of it. e,
IL the m1lkman had talked to that W
stomer for solid hour, telling her m
at the farms were clean, the cream m
y was clean, the milk was all right OF
len she got it, etc., he could have eI
ade no impression and would have w
st the trade, because she would
We been quite sure that the fault tn
Is not with her, but with the milk ar
wv, how ever, having proved that la
ferent care was what was needed
company is absolved from blame.
And the rules of the game" are
simple, too. Keep the milk COW
"a IN clean, sweet place and cold
maps their very simplicity is what