Smyrna times., 1925-06-03
ALL DAIRYMEN OF DELAWARE
MUST Be LICENSED JULY |
HERDS MUST BE TUBERCULIN
TESTED AND HAVE CLEAN BILL
Dairymen Will Not Be Allowed to Re-
tail Milk Unless the Sanitary Re-
quirements Are Lived Up To

"Dairymen of Delaware have now
had about d years time in which to
clean up their daires," says the Del
aware Health News, published by the
State Board Of Health, in its current
issue.
'In order to further safeguard the
milk supply of the State the dairy
men will be licensed by the State
Board of Health on July l. This
means each dairyman will nave to
have his plant in such a condition that
he will score at least fifty points on
the dairy score card, and furthermore
| that such necessary improvements as
the small mouth milk pail, safe water
supplies and other fundamentals must
be had.
"All dairieS must have had their
herds tuberculin-tested and in case of
| those herds where the State Board of
! Agriculture has not yet gotten around
to them a signed agreement must be
| made between the daiIy-men and the
i State Board Of Agriculture Signifying
the dairyman'~ willingness to have his
herd tested by the State authorities.
After the money becomes available
for the testing of cows these herds
can then be cleaned up.
Those dairymen who cannot come
up to these requirements will be barr
ed from retailing milk i'm the towns Of
Delaware until such time as they have
! 1000. 80, u, +l,o -.,,ita,y- raguirap1ppt.
These licenses will be revokable at
any time by the State Board of Health
whenever they feel that milk is being
produced in an insanitary manner
The article issued by the State
Board of Health also says:
"Since last summer when the State
wide milk tests were made in con
junction with the services of the
American Child Hygiene Association
r tests have been conducted twice on all
. milk supplies during the winter
months. The dairymen Of Delaware
in the last year, have made number
e of permanent Improvements in theil
5 dairies and many dairymen have con
? structed entirely new barns, some new
' milk houses and practically all have
Q purchased the small mouth milk pal
n and have cleaned up in general way
/ While one must take into cOnsidera
/. tion the fact that it is much easier t.
n produce a milk supply with low bac
t terial count in the winter as compared
n with the summer, nevertheless, tn
n results this winter have shown tina
V the dairymen have made a decides
e improvement in their product.
O Last summer but % per cent. o
+ the dairymen had clean milk as rate
by the sediment test. This winte
j. this figure jumped to 55 per cent
g That means that at least one-half o
> the dairymen, on the days at leas
/ when the samples were taken, wer
n producing milk relatively free frOr
e sediment. Moreover, last summer ap
r proximately 81 per cent. of the dairie
produced a milk supply with a bacter
r ial count ranging below 100000. Dun
a ing the winter the per cent of dairy
" men having bacterial counts beloV
# 100000 jumped to 81 per cent. show
II ing a great improvement though du
# in part to the cold weather.
"With the warm weather coming o
us it is very important that the dairy
men begin to make preparations fo
the use of ice during the summe
months. This has never been done {
a great extent in Delaware in tn
smaller towns, but in'order to produC
the proper quality of milk it is abst
v lutely necessary that ice should /
Of purchased since but few water SUI
W plies are sufficiently cool to keep th
On milk down below fifty degrees Fal
te renheit."