The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1911-09-07
Chicago Board of Health De-
handing Many Changes in
Diaries in Kenosha Co.
TWENTY SUGGESTIONS MADE
Farmers are Ordered to Clean up the
Cattle Sheds and Make Every Pos
sible Provision to Keep the Milk
Products Clean

The following suggestions to dairy
men have been printed by the Chicago
Board of Health in practically indie
structible form and are now being post
ed in the barns of all dairies which
produce milk or milk products for the
Chicago market, including dairies of
Kenosha county which ship almost en-
tirely to Chicago.
Twenty Dairy Suggestions.
Cows.
The herd should be tested with tub
erculin twice each year. Remove all
tuberculous cows promptly. Buy only
recently tuberculin tested COWS.
Don't excite dairy cows by fast driv-
ing or otherwise. Do not permit cows
to stand in mud or wade ponds or
bitches.
Keep clean the entire body of the
cow; clip short the udder hair.
Never give spoiled, deeayed or sour
ed food.
Provide plenty Of fresh, pure water.
Stables.
Keep cows in stable completely sep
arate from horses. Ceilings of stables
must be air tight if loft is kept above.
Stable should be dry, light (four
square feet glass per cow; 500 cubic
feet of air space per COW, we'll venti-
lated, without drafts on cows.
Floor must be tight; cement is best;
walls and ceilings to be smooth, tight
and clean, whitewashed twice a year.
Remove manure daily to field, or
store under cover, 40 feet away from
stables.
Milk Houses.
Locate away from dust, odors hogs,
etc. Should be light, clean, we'll ven
tilated and well screened. Provide
with cement cooling vat and cement
floor.
Use utensils of metal only, with
smooth seams; never rusty or rough.
Milk utensils must be used only for
milk.
Clean utensils in pure water, only.
Rinse with warm water, scrub inside
and out with hot cleansing solution and
rinse, sterilize with boiling water or
with steam; then keep utensils in an
inverted position in sun and pure air.
Milk and Milk Handling.
Do not raise any dust within half
hour before milking; hence, do not feed
or bed cows within that time.
Wipe udder and surrounding parts
with a clean, damp cloth Immediately
before milking.
Mixers must wear clean outer gar
ments. Wash hands before milking.
Milk with dry hands. Do not use
tobacco.
Use a milk pail with a narrow top,
preferably with strainer or hood.
Milk which is bloody, stringy, or in
to which hair or dirt has fallen should
be discarded
Take milk or each COW Immediately
to milk ROOM Strain at once through
clean cotton flannel or cotton. Then
cool at once to so degrees r. or lower.
Have a thermometer in milk house for
testing temperature of water.
Never mix morning and evening
milk. Never allow milk to freeze.
Persons with typhoid or other con
tagious disease or persons exposed to
same, must be kept away from cows,
utensils and milk. Immediately notify
this department and your milknan ef
any contagious disease on your farm
or in the neighborhood.
Attached to this poster is a form on
which the dairy inspector records the
date of each inspection and the points
scored for the dairy. A perfect dairy
will score leo points. Any dairy fall
ing below 65 points is considered I'M
safe, and if the conditions which are
initiating against the production of a
safe milk are not remedied the sunnlv
from this farm is denied entry to the
Chicago market.
Dairymen shipping milk or milk pro.
ducts to the Chicago market ara "a
CURED to keep these inspection rec
ords posted on their premises.
If the Chicago milk consumers would
interest themselves more in Iearn;na
the record of their milk producers
there would be more general endeavor
among producers to improve their rec.
ords. The department of health will
furnish this information on reo,es+
stating your city milkman.