South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1914-07-14
BeDare of Hot
Weather Mix
Government Issues BuLle-
tin to Housewives Telling
How TO Take Precautions.

During the hot weather milk is
particularly susceptible to contami-
nation and for that reason the de-
partment OF agriculture is issuing a
timely warning TO housewives: Be
ware of Unclean Milk"
Wher milk is delivered ii should be
put into the refrigerator at once. A
very brief exposure to summer heat
makes 1t unfit for use. If il is i'm
possible to have the bottles put i'm
mediately into the refrigerator, po-
vide on the porch a box containing a
lump OF ice. In planning a house.
arrange to have the refrigerator set in
The wall with an opening on the out
hide. IT is always possible to pro-
vide locks for these boxes or refriger-
ator doors and supply the milkman
with a key. The interior Of the
food compartment should be wiped
svery day with a clean cloth. and
thoroughly scalded as often as once
4 week. Under no circumstances
Ihould the drainpipe OF an ice box
be connected with a 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
moved with a sharp pointed instru-
ment without injuring the contents.
The bottle when once open should be
kept in the original bottle until IL 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
INT
vessel should not be poured back.
Onions and other foods having a
strong odor especially during the hot
weather, very easily impart their dis
tinctive smell to milk that is left un-
covered. This is an additional rea-
son for always keeping milk in COW
cred receptacle.
Milk bottles should never be TAX
en- into a sick room for as they are
usually returned to the milkman they
may thus carry infectious diseases
into other homes. Every milk bottle
left at a house where there is an in
fictitious sickness should be boiled be-
fore being returned. The best thing
TO do in such circumstances is to pro-
vide ones own milk bottles or COW
cred 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 disinfect milk bottles
properly after they have been in a
home where there Is sickness.
In any case, bottles should be Civ
en- reasonable care before they are
returned to their owner. The prac-
tice OF pouring vinegar or kerosene
or other liquids into them tempOrar-
lily when not in use should by all
means be discouraged. The contain
ers should be washed in cold water
first and finally in warm water before
they are returned to the farmer sup
plying the milk
These little details of cleanliness
are matters which can not be regu-
lated by the federal or the state gov
ernments. Rules and regulations
that require pure Iiilk TO be deliver
ed TO the home may be rendered VAL
ueless by careless individuals in the
home. The best efforts Of the milk.
man or farmer to deliver hrst-class
milk will amount to nothing unless
individual housewives will cooperate
for the good OF the community