MILK IN HOT WEATHER

Evening Post, Volume XCV, Issue 15, 17 January 1918, Page 8

MILK IN HOT WEATHER

Mr. F. W. Greville,. editor of the Dairyman, brought to the notice of The Post to-day the serious risks milk is running through want of proper carriage this hot weather. "Here we have (he said) two of the hottest days .of the year—, yesterday and to-day. What do I find? Milk from the Manawatu taken from the cow at-4 a.m. or 5 a.m. to-day, arriving at Wellington at noon or thereabouts, taken delivery of by 1 p.m., and to be ■kept for the-round to-morrow morning. What condition do you think that milk •can be in, twenty-four hours old ■in this weather and, with the usual conveniences or want of them possessed by- vendors? There is urgent need for proper facilities being afforded for the milk to be kept in ice and salt. There ie a concrete instance for you. The man who waters the milk is a robber, but unless the water ij impure, it will not do invalids and infants half «o much harm as. milk gone off condition as this milk must be gone off by to-morrow morning. It was removed, I may cay, just as it arrived, uncovered, not kept cool., in an open cart and in the original cans."