Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-08-15
HOW TO PRODUCE CLEAN MILK;
GOOD METHODS TO FOLLOW

Persons engaged in the production
of milk and consumers interested in
procuring clean, safe milk, will be in
terested in the factors for producing
the same, as outlined by the United
States Department of Agriculture in
recent Farmers Bulletin (No. 602),
entitled Production of Clean Milk. I"
The essential factors are outlined as
follows:
Clean. healthy cows kept in clean,
light, well-ventilated stables.
Stable so constructed as to be easily
cleaned.
A clean, well-drained barnyard.
Clean utensils, thoroughly sterilized,
Clean, healthy mixers that milk
with dry hands.
A small-top milking pail.
Immediate cooling of the milk to 30
degrees T. or lower.
Storage of milk at low tempera-
ture until delivered.
A separate house for handling the
milk.
An abundant supply of pure water.
The new bulletin in its eighteen
pages contains a number of figures
and describes in detail the practical
methods that should be followed in
the production of clean milk.
How Milk Becomes Diseased.
Bacteria, according to the bulletin,
| find their way into the milk from
various sources. Some may come
from the udder itself, where they
grow in the milk cisterns and ducts.
! The greater number however, come
from the dust of the air, the dirt
| from the udder and TANKS, from the
mixer, and from unclean utensils.
Disease producing bacteria may get
| into the milk from COWS having such
! diseases as tuberculosis, or from peo-
/ pie who handle the milk, who may
| themselves have contagious diseases
or who have been taking care of pa
/ tents afflicted with such diseases as
/ typhoid fever, diphtheria, and septic
sore throat.
| The consumer is sometimes respon-
| sible for the contamination of the
milk. Milk bottles should not be
! taken into a sick room, because in
| fictitious diseases can be spread by
carrying infected bottles back to the
| dairy farm. If bottles are left where
there are contagious diseases, they
should not be collected by the milk
man until they have been properly
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the case of typhoid fever or other Sc
rious diseases which may be carried
in the milk, it is better for the con-
sumner to put out a covered dish for
the milk or have 1t delivered to some
member of the household. Until Off
cial permission has been granted nc
milk bottles should be removed from
home in which there is or has re-
Gently been case of communicable
disease. The consumer should not
use milk bottles for holding vinegar
kerosene or liquids other than milk.
Why Clean Milk Is Important.
The consumer is interested in clean
| milk primarily because no one cares
to use a food which is not produced
and handled under sanitary condi
tons. There Is a more direct inter.
est, however, because of the danger
of contracting disease which may b.
communicated by this means. Seri-
Gus epidemics of typhoid fever, sep
tic sore throat, and other disease:
have been disseminated through the
milk supply. The weight of scientific
evidence at the present time leads t5
the conclusion that tuberculosis may
be transmitted from animals to hu
man beings, particularly children
who consume raw milk containing tu
bercle bacilli.
Cleanliness is not an absolute safe
guard against disease, but it is thu
greatest factor in preventing con
tamination. From the health stand
from the specific disease producing
bacteria previously mentioned, bu
point there is great danger not onl.
, from milk that contains large mum
bers Of miscellaneous bacteria which