REMINDERS FOR DAIRYMEN

Patea Mail, Volume XLIV, 23 July 1920, Page 4

REMINDERS FOR DAIRYMEN

The following reminders for dairymen are from the Journal of Agriculture : Don’t race the cows to the yard with a dog ; it will cause eowy flavour in the milk. Don’t allow the cows to drink impure water. Don’t use the milk until the cow has been calved at least four clear days. Don’t start milking without first washing your hands. Don’t start milking until you have washed and dried the cow’s udder and teats, using a clean cloth, clean water, and a clean bucket. Don’t use milking-machines without drawing so'mc water through first. Don’t allow fowls, calves, or pigs in the shed. Don’t use a cloth strainer without scalding it daily. Don’t use kerosene tins for milk or cream. Don’t use a wooden stirrer for milk or cream. Don’t use a cloth for washing utensils. Don’t use the separator room for a general store-room. Don’t separate in the milk-shed. Don’t mix hot and cold cream together. Don’t keep cream in the same room as an oil-engine. Don’t put the lids on the cream cans until just before sending them away. Don’t leave the cream standing in the "sun. Don’t expect to keep the separator milking-machine clean unless you have a proper set of brushes. Don’t make the state of your neigh, hour’s dairy the excuse for neglecting your own. Always cool the milk as soon as it is drawn. Always cool the cream as it leaves the separator. Always keep milk and cream in a. pure atmosphere. Always keep milk and cream stirred with a metal plunger. Always distribute the night’s mill: over all the cans in use. Always wash cans immediately - they come back from the factory - . Always skim cream, so that it contains not less than -!0 per cent, of fat. Always wash the separator every time it is used. Always wash utensils in warm water and scab! in boiling water. Always wash Jhc milking-machine with cold, warm, then boiling water. Always wash the milking-machine immediately milking is finished. Always take the rclcaser down fo: washing daily - . Alway - s take the lid off the vacuum tank daily. Always take the milking machine to pieces and wash thoroughly t wice lyAlways boil the milk tubes once weekly. Alwa.ys wash out tho vacuum tank. Alwayns remember that water boils at 212 degrees Fahr.