The gazette-times. [volume] (Heppner, Or.) 1912-1925, 1914-07-16
HOUSEWIVES BEWARE OF
UNCLEAN MILK!
n URlNG the hot weather milk is
- particularly susceptible to


contamination, and for that
reason the U. S. Department Of
Agriculture is issuing a timely
warning to housewives: "Beware
of Unclean Milk"
When milk is delivered it should
be put into the refrigerator at
once. A very brief exposure to
summer heat makes it unfit for
use. If it is impossible to have the
bottles put Immediately into the re-
frigerator, provide on the porch
box containing lump of ice. Iu
planning house, arrange to have
the refrigerator set in the wall with
an opening on the outside. 1t is
always possible to provide locks for
these boxes or refrigerator doors.
and supply the milkman with key.
The interior of the food compart-
ment should be wiped every day
with clean cloth, and thoroughly
scalded as often as once a week.
Under 10 circumstances should the
drainpipc of an ice box be con.
nected with sewer.
Before removing the cap from
bottle of milk, the cap and the neck
of the bottle should be washed and
carefully wiped with a clean cloth.
The cap should not be pushed down
into the milk. 1t may be easily re.
moved with sharp pointed instru-
ment without injuring the contents.
The bottle when once open should
be kept covered and the milk should
be kept in the original bottle until
it is used up. The original cap
should not be replaced, but instead
an inverted glass may be put over
the top Of the bottle. The bottle
when not in use, should, Of course,
always be left in the refrigerator,
and any milk that has been poured
from it 'lto another vessel should
not be poured back. Onions and
other foods having a strong odor,
especial. during the hot weather,
very easily impart their distinctive
smell to milk that is left uncovered.
This is an additional reason for al
ways keeping milk in a covered re.
ceptacle.
Milk bottles should never be
taken into sick room for as they
are usually returned to the milk
man they may thus carry infectious
diseases into other homes. Every
milk bottle left at a house where
there is an infectious sickness
should be boiled before being re-
turned. The best thing to do in
such circumstances is to provide
ones own milk bottles or covered
dishes into which the milkman may
pour the milk from his bottles. The
duty of each individual to his
neighbor in this connection Is most
important. The board of health may
be called to dsinfect milk bottles
properly after they have been in a
home where there is sickness.
In any case, bottles should be
given reasonable care before they
are returned to their owner. Tho
practice of pouring vinegar or
kerosene or other liquids into them
temporarily when not in use should
by all means be discouraged. The
containers should be washed in cold
water first and finally in warm
water before they are returned to
the farmer supplying the milk.
These little details of cleanliness
are matters which can not be regu-
lated by the Federal or State Gov
ernments, rules and regulations
that require pure milk to be de-
livered to the home may be rem
dered valueless by careless indi-
viduals in the home. The best eff
forts Of the milkman or farmer to
deliver first class milk will amount
to nothing unless individual house
wives will cooperate for the good
Of the community.