The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1911-10-31
THE PRODUCTION OF
CERTIFIED MILK
Absolute Cleanliness in Every
Respect Insisted Upon.

| --NoANht pCioON IATOWS
oil me germs taken into the system
nut those in weakened condition Of
Ter them breeding place. The New
ORR state authorities have taken np
The matter and now give certificates
70 certain dairymen whose methods
OF handling milk meet with the re-
ouirements laid down. This milk 4
called certified milk
William Bayard Blackwell il pro-
aucing certified milk TO las New
ork and local markets at 1av-
ehswood Farm on Spring
road. He has herd of Guerns
Jerseys and Holsteins, with prize
winning Holstein bull. The COW
stable is model of its kind. Cement
floors, walls and ceiling. no cracks
/ OF corners to collect dirt: steel
Sanctions, all tend towards perfect
cleanliness.
The cows are MIXED twice each
day about twelve hours elaps:ng ha-
tween each milking. Before the milk
ing begins the walls and ceiling Of
the COW barn are washed down so
,hat no dust may get into the milk
the men who are to do the mjllxjno
'ake shower baths in bathroom adj
Jacent and don clean, sterilized white
uniforms and caps. The stools. nails
and other paTaphenalia are all steril-
lEed before they are used.
every COW is thoroughly washed
with hot water and disinfectant
Inc COW barn smells like hospital
ward, no trace of ''cow" being dis
cernible to the nostrils while the
COWS themselves are so clean thev
could sit in the parlor chairs saws
their owner.
windows of this COW barn are so
arranged as to permit of no direct
graft upon the cows while a rentilat-
ing system also gives fresh air. The
windows. however, are all closed dur
ing the milking and any visitors To
: the COW barn during the progress Of
'hls work are compelled to don long
y white coats and caps.
II As each mixer gets nail fnll he
4 carries it to small room at one end
OF the barn where it is received by
/ me Welgher who keeps a record or
Il 'he yield of each COW. The min, is
/ strained into large can. While nor
/ IN actual use the strainers are kent
] covered so that no dust may enter
i AS each mixer delivers his pail of
/ mix he washes his hands and dries
/ Them on sterilized towels before he.
i ginning another milking. thar nv M
possibility may any lurking germ be
/ carried from the udder of one COW
i 10 That of another. This layatory is
4 Ike those used in hospitals. foot
Trip being used, so that the mixers
90 not touch the plumbing with their
4 hands.
|. When filled the cans are conva. al
by gravity trolley to the dairy abouf
loo feet away from the COW barn. At
'nls building they are received in an
: upper room by one man, the only one
T aiioWed IN this section of the dairy
and who does all the bottling. The
mix Is poured from the cans into
an apparatus that again strains il
L and eools it by means of pipes filled
= with iced water over which the milk
flows. An ingenious machine fills
: the bottles. All the bottles. before
they are filled with milk are care
$ FULLY cleaned and sterlized.
t As fast as filled the bottles are
+; stopped by means of a pasteboard
s. cap and are then handed out to an
!; ether employee who puts over their
L tops an additional stopper of parch-
3, mont paper. The bottles are then
5, placed in boxes, packed with Ice and
r, dispatched to their destination.
$ In the dairy building is huge
sterilizer, in which all the appliances
g for milking are daily subjected to a
e heat of 25S degrees, effectively de-
e stroying all germs that might be lurk-
Il ing upon them A boiler supplies
d steam to all parts of the plant and
J. the equipment includes several in
q genious tees" that provide for the
h combining of the steam with cold
}. water so that water of almost any
temperature may be secured from the
faucets. The dairy building also in
!. cludes within its confines a regula-
!, tion Troy laundry in which all of the
white suits, towels, ETC., used by the
employees are washed and wrung out.
steam room adjacent permits the
:. turning of live steam into the cloth
e ing after which heat from steam
IL radiators dries it out No germ has
g a chance for it's life in this dairy for
n germicides. disinfectants, steam and
o other foes of disease breeders are
after it continually.
An ice house is adjacent to the
dairy, having capacity of 1000 TONS
Everything possible is done to in
sure the purity of the milk regula-
d tions of the New York authorities
i provide for. the feeding of the COWS
K and also the periods during which
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