The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1914-07-03

During Hot Weather Should Be
Put in Refrigerator as
Soon as Received.
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WASHINGTON July 3-Durins the
hot weather milk Il particularly sus-
.ceptible to Contamination ana III ;aat
reason the United States Debartmei,,
OF Agriculture is issuing a timsly
warning is acknowledgements II
Uhclean milk!
When milk Is delivered IL should be
put into the retfig erat6E &C 6iiee. Il
very brief exposure To summer heat
makes 1t unit for Use. II it is inn
possible to have the bottles put in
mediately into tie refrigerator. pro-
vide on the porch q box containing
lump Of lee. ii planning d house,
arrange to have tie refrigerator set II
the wall with an opening on the out
SIDE. 1t Is always possible to pro-
vide locks for these boxes or refris-
orator doors, and supply the milkman
with q Key. The interior Of the food
compartment should be wiped every
day with q clean cl6th, and thorough
" scalded a. often az o1ics a week.
Under no circumstances should the
drainpipe OF IN Ice boz be connected
with a sewer,
Care III Opening Bottle.
Before removing the Sap from
bottle OF milk, the cap ana the neek
of the bottle should be washed and
carefully wiped with q clean cloth,
the cap Should not be pushed down
into the milk. IL may Be easily re-
moved with d sh&rp=pointed flistru-
melt without tlturing the contents.
The bottle when once open should be
kept covered and the milk should be
kept in the original bottle until II is
used up. The original cap Should not
be replaced. but Instead an inverted
glass may be put over the top Of the
bottle. Tie bottle when not in use.
should, Of COURSE, always be left In
the refrigerator. and any milk thai
has ben poured from IT, into smother
vessel should not be poured back.
Onions and other foods having
strong odor, especially during the
hot weather. very easily itnpart their
distinctive smell to milk that is left |
This Is an additional
reason for always keeping milk IN q
covered receptacle,
I Out Of Sick Room.
Mtlk bottles should never be taken
into sick room for as, they are usual
" returned to the miikman they may
thus carry infectious diseases into
other homes. Every milk bottle left
at a house where there Is an infec-
tious sickness should be boiled IS.
fore being returned. Tie best thing
70 do IA such circumstances Is to pro-
eide ones own, milk bottles or covered
dishes into which the railkman may
pour the milk from his bottles. The
duty OF each individual to his neigh
hor In this connection is, most I'm
pnrtAnt. The board OF health may be
called to disinfeet milk bottles prop-
erly. after they have been in home
WHARF there Is sickness.
In ouy case, bottles should be Civ.
en- reasonable care before they ave
returned TO their owner. The 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 nrst and finaf-
~ In warm water before they are re-
turned to the farmer supplyine the |
milk.
These little details Of cleanliness
are matters which can not be regulat-
ed by the federal or the state gov
ernments. Rules and regulations
that require pure milk to be delivered
TO the home may be rendered value
less by careless individuals in the
home. The best efforts Of the milk
man or farmer to deliver first-elass
milk win amount TO nothing unless IN
dividual housewives viii cooperate
Tor the good Of the community.
suez canal authorities announce n
that the maximum raft of water Il