CLEANLINESS IN MILKING.

Taranaki Daily News, 22 September 1931, Page 13

CLEANLINESS IN MILKING.

(To the Editor.) Sir,—What a high opinion “Scalded Milk” must have of the New Zealand factories! Just think, after manure being kicked into the bucket, and mixed with the strippings, manure and water being sucked through the machines with the milk, it is taken to the factories and made into cheese. What a highly matured cheese it would be. What rot; the factories would at once condemn milk which was in the condition “Scalded Milk” states. During the past farmers have been endeavouring to improve their farms as much as capital enables them, so that it is not likely that they would overlook their sheds, when it is the most vital part of the farm—even as vital as the cows. As “Scalded Milk” suggests, these holes could be easily remedied, and in quite a lot of cases have been remedied, by filling in the holes with a strong mixing of cement. Certainly there is no new way to hold a bucket, but if held the correct way the dirt from the cows’ feet should strike the side of it, instead of going inside, as “Scalded Milk” suggests. Evidently “Scalded Milk” did not read my letter aright, as in it I stated “Nearly every factory has an inspector,” and, to my knowledge, there are two inspectors to about every three factories, so that “Scalded Milk’’ could easily make his complaints to the nearest inspector, or even to the factory supplied by the culprits; that is, if he is not making “a mountain out of a molehill.”—l am, etc., E. J. PRANKLE.