DRY-HAND MILKING

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXX, Issue 21470, 19 April 1933, Page 18

DRY-HAND MILKING

, THE BEST METHOD 'An' experiment conducted in England Recently by Miss Kathleen Boyes, Dairying Superintendent for Hampshire, 'and Mr. Joseph McGlemont, advisory bacteriologist to the National Institute for Research in Dairying, revealed that dry-hand milking produces cleaner milk than either wet-hand milking or grease-lubricated-Land milking. Wet-hand milking was found not only to cause contamination of the milk, but to be responsible for much trouble with Bore and cracked teats, which could be avoided by dry-hand milking. The use of vaseline as a lubricant and softening agent for cracked teats was found to be less tfficient than dry-hand milking followed by the application of a suitable ointment after each milking. The results of the experiment showed a complete absence of bacillus coli in all Samples of milk drawn with clean, dry hands, and respective counts of six and five bacillus coli per cubic centimetre in (samples of milk drawn by wet-hand and •" greasy "-hand milking. Tile advantage of dry-hand milking was nlso strikingly demonstrated when the bacteriological counts were considered. Taking all the factors of cleanliness into account, it was found that 30 samples of dry-hand milk scored 72.5 points out of 100; 30 samples of wet-hand milk scored •31.8, ; and 30 samples of "greasy" milk iusorrd 54.6 points. '