Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1911-04-07

containing a very small number of
bacteria, and then cooling the milk
and keeping It sufficiently cool so
that the bacteria cannot increase to
any appreciable extent during the
time of delivery to the consumer.
Now this can be done by simply hav-
ing the cows absolutely clean at the
time of milking and having them in
an absolutely clean place at the time
OF milking.
This involves instead of the ex-
pensiyely built and kept dairy barn,
that there be constructed in one cor,
ner of the common barn or possibly
just outside, near the stable, a milk
ing room into which the cows are
taken and kept while they are being
MIXED A number of the dairymen
of the state of Washington are find
ing this milking room a solution to
the question of producing a clean
milk at a less price than they could
before The authorities having in
charge a large city hospital would
consider it an absolute impossibility
to keep the entire hospital sterile for
operative patients, but they do find
It quite possible and not too eXpen
siye to set aside for the exclusive use
Of asepGc surgery, a small room in
the hospital where all of the aseptic
surgery is performed. That is the
condition which | advocate for milk
ing, a special clean milking room
which can be kept sanitary at less
expense than the entire stable can
Some of the dairymen of the state
of Washington are finding it quite
convenient to have the milking room
hold four COWS at one time. The
COWS are curried in the general sta
BILE, then taken to the milking room
where they are given just a small
amount OF grain to keep them quiet.
This milking room is thoroughly
flushed so that there is absolutely no
dust present. In here the udders are
washed with a damp cloth. The
mixers previously to entering the
milking room brush the dust from
their clothes, some of them even
wear a special jacket for milking,
but not all of them. The milking is
then done into covered sanitary
milking pals and is Immediately at
terward taken to the milking room
where it is put into the bottling ma
chine and run into bottles. The
milk is not aerated, being exposed to
the air as little as possible, but it is
Immediately cooled to 80 or below
ana under these conditions it isl
placed on the market 40 miles away
with bacterial count less than 5000
per cubic centimeter The cost of
the production of this milk is about
6 cents per quart on the farm L
firmly believe that the special milk
ing room will decrease the cost of
the production of sanitary milk from
a quarter of cent to a cent -
The delivery ii milk is very ex-
pensive The customers buying
sanitary milk live in various parts of
The city ana are quite scattered,
which makes the delivery in bottles
a very expensive matter. In the flu
ture we must look to a more concen-
trated milk delivery route and a less
expensive container than the milk.
bottle We much change our dairy
COWS so that we have largely increas-
ed mixers, which will make it pos
sible to obtain milk at a less price
for feed, care and fixed expenses
than it is with the kind of COWS we
have at present That is instead of
having a COW which average 20
pounds of 6 per cent milk per day, .
we must have those that average 25, /
30, 35 or even 40 pounds We must
materially increase the milk produc-
ton propensity of the dairy cows.
This latter is really the most i'm
portant of all For instance, I have
at hand the records of fifteen dairy
COWS. The poorest one is a six-year-
old COW which last year gave 3516'
pounds of 6 per cent milk, which was
sold for $6S.95. The best one is a /
12-year-old COW which gave 9574
pounds of 2-l0 per cent milk that
was sold for $15S.75, or a difference
of 500. This same herd contains a
, 1-2-year-old heifer that last year
gave GOA pounds of 4-10 per cent
milk which was sold for $l0715. |.
believe that it is absolutely necessary
that the veterinarian and animal
hushandman constantly urge and en-.
courage the dairyman to place at the
head Of his herd record carrying
bulls so that the general milk pro-
duotion of the offspring may be con-
stantly increased, which will mater
tally lessen cost of milk production.