BE YE CLEAN!

Bruce Herald, Volume XXX, Issue 3025, 6 January 1899, Page 6

BE YE CLEAN!

:$ t j iA qß : p|- cleanliness, right from t^ C o, w yard to the factory," as iioard'* JDatryman puts it, "is the cause -of nine-tenths of the inferior butter." Not a doubt about it, and downright ignorance of what constitutes necessary, cleanliness is the reason 'why so much of it exists. The filthy milker is very often the outcome of a filthy cowyard and cowshed. The filthy cowyard comes because the farmer who owns it, and keeps it reeking with filth, does not know any better. In a few instances this filth may result from laziness, but farmers, as a rule, are not lazy. They may be mentally indolent, may be too careless to read and study, and thus by their neglect lose the good ideas that turn failure into success. But filth in most cases is the result of ignorance. Now, this is not a time when milk growers can afford to be ignorant. Ignorance will cost them a hundred times more than knowledge. We know of a milk supplier who has been turned away from two factories and three creameries because of the filthiness of his milk. Lumps of manure and handfuls of hair and cow scurf have been found in his milk. His fame spread abroad, "and the last twc creameries found him out pretty quick. No sensible milk suppliers could afford to have milk such aa he brought mixed with theirs, and thereby lose at least a ponny a pound on. the value of the whole weekly output of butter on account of its rank flavour. - This man was ignorant and bull headed besides. He honestly thought that all the talk about hie milk, and the necessity of extra care in supplying clean milk, wag arrant nonsense. He would not be advised by the factory or the creamery manager. He simply lost money because of his ignorance. There are, unfortunately, so many of this class in Australia that the total loss caused by their ignorance amounts to a large sum annually. They are found more or less in connection with every butter factory and creamery in the land, butj thanks to the firmness of managers, * they are meeting with their deserfcsl All these milkgrowers are losing money, just because they refuse to accept the truth." "Be ye clean" is our advice to them, and those who disregard this warning will always be found amongst the list of grumblers who proclaim to the world that " dairying don't pay."