Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1914-06-30
WARNS AGAINST
UNCLEAN Milk
Government Urges Care in
Handling Milk, Especially
During Summer.

washington, june Z9.-DuflnS the
hot weather milk is particularly sus-
ceptible to contamination and for that
reason the United States department
OF agriculture is issuing timely
warning to housewives of
Unclean Milk!
When milk is delivered it should be
put into the refrigerator at once. If
it is impossible to have the bottles
put Immediately into the refrigerator,
provide on the porch a box containing
lump of ice. In 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 re-
frigerator doors and supply the milk
man with a key. The interior Of the
food compartment should be wiped ev-
cry day with clean cloth, and thor
oughly scalded as often as once a
week. Under no circumstances should
the drainpipe of an ice box be con-
nected with sewer.
Care in Opening a Bottle Of Milk.
Before removing the cap from a
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 a 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 invert-
ed 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 into another
vessel should not be poured back. On
ions and other foods having a strong
odor, especially during the hot wealth
er, very easily impart their distinctive
smell to milk that is left uncovered.
This is an additional reason for al
ways keeping milk in covered recep-
tacle.
Keep Milk Bottles Out of Sick Room.
Milk bottles should never be taken
into sick room for as they are usu-
ally returned to the milkman they may
thus carry infectious diseases into
other homes. Every milk bottle left
at house where there is an infectious
sickness should be boiled before being
returned. The best thing to do in
such circumstances is to provide ones
own milk bottles or covered dishes
into which the milkman may pour his
milk from his bottles The duty of
each individual to his neighbor in tfGA
connection is most important. The
board OF health may be called to dis
infect milk bottles properly after they
have been in home where there is
sickness.
In any case, bottles should be given
reasonable care before they are re-
turned to their owner. The practice
of pouring vinegar or other liquids in
to 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 reguiat-
ed by the federal or the state govern
ments. Rules and regulations that
require pure milk to be delivered to
the home may be rendered valueless
by careless individuals in the home.
The best efforts of the Elilkman or
farmer to deliver first-c2ass milk will
amount to nothing unless individual
housewives will cooperate for the
good of the community.