The Twin Falls times. [volume] (Twin Falls, Idaho) 1905-1916, 1913-08-15

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Feed COWS clean, wholesome food.
Keep the barn well lighted and ven
tilated.
Thoroughly clean and scald utensils
daily.
Clean and whitewash the barn and
keep it clean.
Promptly return milk bottle to your
dealer. Scald and clean thoroughly.
Rinse Immediately after emptying.
The Small Top Milking Pail.
The average consumer will pur-
chase inferior milk if the price is
low, and he is ignorant of the condi-
tons under which it is produced,
Few, If any, of the consumers of milk
visit any but the best farms, where
conditions are superior generally to
those found on the average dairy
farm.
Dealers seldom attempt to select
their supplies from the best farms,
but generally purchase their milk sup
ply from producers regardless of how
1t was produced, SO long as the health
department permits, and the milk
complies with the law and is satisfac-
tory to the trade. Consequently milk
arriving at the dealers plant, accord
ing to the dealers own statement and
practices, is often considered unfit to
be sold to the consumer until the
same has been treated by their pro-
cess and made safe-i. e. pasteurized.
Let us approach this problem with
reason and justice, and remove the
cause of tuberculosis; let us teach the
producer how to produce clean milk;
let us teach him the value of more
sunlight in his barn and show him
how easy it is to keep milk clean and
how important it is, because dirty, in
ferior milk, even though pasteurized,
is not to be compared with clean,
wholesome milk, whether the same is
pasteuriZed or not.
OF all the forces now EMPLOYED to
eliminate filth from the milk, the
small top milk pail is an important
one in preventing contamination and
insuring clean milk supply.
When once the producer realizes
how much filth actually falls into the
common milk pail as compared to the
three-quarters closed top pail, that
man is started along lines of sanitary
milk protection.
The use of the covered pals is con-
vincing to the most obstinate filthy
milk producer. The dirt an the cover,
instead of in the milk is lesson in
clean milk production every time the
covered pail is used.
Do You Get Clean Milk From Your
Mflkman2
To find out, strain the milk from
can or bottle through fine white alb
sorbent cotton. If the milk is dirty,
the dirt will show on the cotton. Bac-
terra will not show, but milk that has
been protected from dirt, is less like
ly to be contaminated with dangerous
bacteria.
If you are interested in health lit
erature write to DR.. Ralph Falk, sec
rotary of the state board of health,
asking to have your name placed on
the board of health mailing list.
State Laboratory Facilities Open to
the Public.
The state board of health labora-
tory makes free examinations of any
matter having bearing on the public
health. Water is examined for sew
age contamination; milk for butter
fat; water pollution and general
cleanliness
Examinations are also made for tu-
berculosis, diphtheria, typhoid Of pus,
tumors, etc. Mailing containers may
be obtained from the local health Of
fices or from the state board of
health at Boise
1t is violation of the postal laws
to send matter of this kind through
the mails except in the specially con-
structed containers supplied by the
board of health.
The state board of health will in
vestigate complaints relating to i'm
pure water supplies in any locality in
the state