FARM AND DAIRY.

Pahiatua Herald, Volume V, Issue 573, 22 November 1897, Page 4

FARM AND DAIRY.

Bacteria in Milk

To incite greater cleanliness in drawing and manipulating milk and in lie environment of cows, several it a nts 1 1 I'.of. Woll and other bin o .solog: ts ure here presented. Win it milk is drawn from the udder if i i. i .• 1 1:1,. row it is sterile, or germ ft< A pro! ii,i>' exception to this i , mat a 1 vv of i he first drops of i l l. it the end of t'je teats, may be inipri glinted, in -light degree, with tin su ms. The number of bacteria in cow’s milk depends on tiie tn atmei.t to which the milk !,;i been , ibjcelrd lice drawn from tiudders. Samples taken from row.i iii a pasture Held showed the follow ing average results as regards their bacterial content: Number of wing, 10; when tile liulk hii '• torn! for an hour, HO ; two boars, 1,5:1?). linfir, ly different data ur ob'a n d i:i examining mill; ~ro ced in a La . Prof. Woll obtain' d Kiii.ph loiik from cows in a stabs' v.li m oi.lv tli" I cavy milker) bail yet b n taken in from the in.ins r pi :ure, and consequently the stable was comparatively clean and whole omc. yet milk imiiied a ely after mi king contained bact< ria per cubic centimeter, 100; in bull an hour, OHO ; in one and a half hour :i,Goo. Milk from stables where winter conditions had entered, usually showed a higher coni! nt. Bacteriological analy iis ofp'ich iiiuk, half an hour after the clo; «• . milking have variously given tli billow mg data fur the content i pernn e centimeter:—4,loo, 2,450, I,' Yd, m;;(), I,().,(), l),0H0, 5,450, 11,0/0. These variations wi re can ed, of Cour e, hv tbi' ill fieri lice in the sanitation of the environments ; the cleanliness of the animals, or otherwise; tho soundness and sweetness of feed and the purity of the drinking water. From a filthy and dark cow stable a sample of milk was taken, which H-'lths of on hour uftcr ni II; in - showed not less than 1570 000 bacteria per cubic centimeter. \ cry hud nail has ieveuiud millions of

bacteria per cubic centimeter, so many, in fact, that they were beyond enumeration or estimation. Not all of these are injurious bacteria, but in cases of unclean cows, impure food and filthy and dark stables, the adverse bacteria soon so largely predominate that all others are subdued and only rank grocery butter can be churned from the cream. Shall we aim for the least number of bacteria per cubio centimeter, or shall we be lax and take the millions that will surely come along ?—Practical Farmer.