Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-07-17
The School and Mil Apporlior !:
menis for the Year 1918.
Gov. and Council Will Meet, satur.
day..Dental E1an,ir alion Tassers.
STATE HOUSE CALENDAR.
Regular Meeting of Governor ant
Council, Tuesday, July 20, 1918, II
A. Nj. Special Session, Saturday
July 10.


served during his trips about the State
MIR. smith has put his untiring efforts
into the work of having the milk OF
Maine better and put up in more SAM
tary condition 1t is with this purpose
in mind that he has placed before the
people from time to time, hints thai
would greatly help in reducing The
number of disease germs carried il
| milk, and would result in the customer
receiving a better supply of milk. H'
Saws:
"Criticising the dairymen has come
10 be a habit for many consumers who
if they would reflect a moment and
study few of the dairymans prob
| lens with him, would be only toe
glad 10 favor him in his lenient de
| mands Attention 10 details is essen
| tial to the success of the business OF
| lairylng and the consumer must be-
| come acquainted with the obligations
a dairy farmer has To meet.
1T is a common fault found wit!
milkmen wha deliver milk, that II sours
in day or two. A small amount spent
fer d piece of zinc or other suitable
material for the lining of the milk
wagon and a small quantity of ice
broken between the bottles or cans.
would stop some of the many com
naints and would no doubt increase q
mans trade by a few unsatished con-
sGmers who have learned the advant-
ages of having cold milk delivered.
Surely a piece of zinc and contract
fer small quantity of ice are not be-
yond the ordinary milkman who should
a a
trade.
The care Of the pasteboar1 bottle
caps has been found to be very badly
neglected and that these should be COW
cred and protected from flies and dust
must be considered as preventive
measure against possible contamina-
ton OF milk or cream. The caps should
he kept in a covered clean receptacle
until inserted i'm the bottle.
Mr.. Smith declared that the present
system ct keeping the caps is entirely
inadequate, and that the different sizes
Of milk bottles. require, of course,
different size caps. and they must be
kept in different boxes thus increasing
the danger of contamination. He con-
tinued:
"Often milkmen are found who use
the Tipped cap for the benefit of their
customers, even when ii is obnoxious
to themselves. The Tipped cap does not
as n rule fit the bottle tight; leakage
results. making the bottles unsightls
md m attraction for flies. Tipped caps
interfere with the cooling of tho bottled
milk in ice water and introduce conei-
tons that do not make for sanitary
milk. The majority of milkmen, sooner
or later, will dispense with the Tipped
cap and consumers will receive the
tighter and more sanitary capped bot
tie.
Bottle washing is a matter that is
very often neglected, but which is of
utmost importance in the marketing of
sanitary milk. The correct method is to
wash the returned bottles with luke
warm water to loosen up the dirt; then
to wash with boiling water having some
cleaning agent with it. In order to get
the best results, there should not be too
much of the cleansing agent. A small
amount with foam forming inside the
bottles as they are cleaned brings re-
suits. Rinsing in clean, hot water is
important. for all traces of soap must
be removed, leaving the bottle clean
and sweet. Many dairymen do not in
vert their bottles to drain and before
filing with milk a teaspoonful or so of
rinsing water can be poured from
them. If this rinsing water is not
changed frequently. trouble of serious
nature is apt to result.
1T Is a common practice not to wash
clean looking bottles collected from
customers. but to be on the safe side,
all bottles should be washed thorough
~. Milk specked bottles are often
collected. this condition being caused
by pouring in scalding water rather
than allowing the milk to soak off in
warm water first. Unless all bottles are
washed. consumer and dairyman are
unaware as To the cleanliness of the
bottles. The dish water used by the
ordinary housewife for washing puT-
poses is usually unfit for washing milk
bottles and after the bottles are wash
co they are usually left exposed until
collected. Such bottles are ideal car
iiers of disease germs from one house,
fold 20 another and as q safeguard
those that are not rewashed by the
m'lkman should be refused.
Filling these returned bottles with
DoN ~" oSiliHS tliSIll Is d CoiiIIiou pl az
tiee with some milkmen. who do not
care To carry extra bottled milk. This
IS very insanitary practice and can
be improved by the individual bottle
system, whereby the consumer has his
tagged hottie cleaned and capped by
himself. In two cities there is an ordi-
nance against filling bottles or pouring
milk on the street and it would be
well II more milkmen should give this
detail little more attention. If a
dairyInan advertises that he dispenses
pure milk he should do everything in
his power to make it as pure as it is
possible To have it. by paying more at
tcntion to details. Absolutely pure
milk does not exist, but attention to
the important details will give a milk
that has a low bacteria count and which
the public may well accept as being
IS nearly pure as possible.
"Wnen a dairyman is found who has
neat place of business that is always
clean. and who milks into a covered or
hooded.pail from clean healthy animals
and who cools his milk and keeps
it cold until delivered, and who deliv-