Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1914-10-30

poses STIRRING is now regarded as IN
dispensable.
In one experiment it was found that
the milk at the top of the can above
the level of the surrounding water
was from five to six degrees warmer
than the rest of the canful. In con.
sequence, bacteria developed at
higher rate at the< top. When the
milk became mixed later the in
creased number of the bacteria in the
warmer portion resulted in hasten
ing the souring of the entire canful.
When the water in the cooling tank
was 60.6 degrees F. the temperature
of the milk was reduced by stirring
from nearly 80 degrees F. to 60 de.
grees F. in about three hours. I'm.
stirred milk did not reach the lower
! temperature until four hours and
| fifteen minutes had elapsed. The
stirring was done at intervals of
fifteen minutes. A period of even
three hours, however, is regarded as
| too long time to cool milk, and the
| specialists of the department consider
that the tests demonstrate the neces'
sity of employing some suitable form
of milk cooler that is more efficient
than running we'll water. Where ice
is plentiful it is easy to cool the milk
to as low as 40 degrees F. by run
ming it over some form of cooler
around which cracked ice or a mix
| ture Of ice and salt is packed.
To improve the Farm Egg of the
Middle West.
If the farmer, the country mer-
! chant and cash buyer, the railroad
and the car-lot shipper will give spe
cial attention to certain points in the
marketing and handling of eggs in the
middle West, the farm egg of that
section may be greatly improved, ac
cording to the United States Depart
ment of Agriculture.
Here are some suggestions which
each individual factor in the process
may follow with profit to the whole:
Suggestions for the Farmer.
1. Improve your poultry stock.
2. Keep one of the generalpurpose
breeds, such as the Plymouth Rock,
| Wyandotte, Orpington or Rhode
Island Red
3. Provide one clean, dry, vermin'
free nest for every four or five hens.
4. Conclude all Matching by June l
and sell or confine male birds during
the remainder of the summer.
5. Gather eggs once daily during
ordinary times and twice daily during
| hot or rainy weather
6. In summer place eggs as soon as
| gathered in a cool, dry room.
z. Use all small and dirty eggs at
home
s. Market eggs frequently, twice a
week if possible, during the summer.
9. In taking eggs to market protect
them from the suns rays.
10. In selling, insist that the trans
action be on a quality basis, for If
care has been given the eggs, this
system will yield more money to the
producer.
| Sb9SCSLlNHS IOi VIC SOAhkiy
and Cash Buyer.
l. Candle and buy on quality
basis.
2. Allow the farmer to see you
candle his eggs.
g. Pack carefully in strong, clean
cases and filters.
4. Do not keep eggs in musty eel
lar or near OIL barrels or other odor-
| ferrous merchandise.
5. Ship daily during warm weather.
Suggestions to the Railroad.
1. Provide covered portion Of sta
ton platform where cases of eggs can
be stacked, and see that the agent
stacks them there.
q Provide refrigeration for the
eggs on the local freight.
8. Where refrigerator cars are used
on local freights, see that the doors
are kept closed when not loading.
4. If refrigeration cannot be sup
piled, provide stock cars for this pur-
pose during the summer.
5. Where box cars are used for eggs
do not allow freight which may hurt
their quality, such as oil barrels, to be
loaded in the same car
Suggestions for the Car-Lot Shipper.
l. Buy strictly on quality basis.
2. Encourage the smaller buyers to
trade on quality basis.
8. Join the State Car-Lot Shippers
association.
4. Cooperate with other shippers
and with the state officials in bringing
about this system Of buying.
s. Keep the subject agitated and
before the people; in other words, edu-
| cato them