CLEANLINESS

Stratford Evening Post, Issue 86, 6 July 1928, Page 7

CLEANLINESS

EFFECT ON QUALITY -. ' T pABE OF MILKING ]VIAGHIN"E3. Absolute cleanliness where milking machines; are used is the secret success in ensuring good niilk and cream, of high grade. In a statement issued by the N.S.W.. Department c\f Agn- , culture it is stated that, once the rubber parts become contaminated cannot bo cleaned; the only course to adopt i« to throw them away and to obtain new ones. A cleaning once a week, no matter how thorough, will not result in choicest grade at the factory. All parts of the machine must be cleaned carefully every day, and between milkinga f!;e inflations and tubes should be soaked in limo water, which ishould be renewed at frequent intervals, as it soon becomes stale. When cups are removed from one cow to another, care should be taken to see that the cups are held so as to fall over and break the suction. If they he carrieTi with their face towards the ground, dust and manure from the floor will be sucked into the tube and thence into the buckets and vat. Milking machines require ' a "groat amount of attention and punctilious cave in cleaning if they are to prove satisfactory