REMINDERS FOR DAIRYMEN.

Woodville Examiner, Volume VII, Issue 659, 30 January 1891, Page 4

REMINDERS FOR DAIRYMEN.

Milk from cows in good health and apparent contentment only should be used. Until after the eighth milking it should not he offered to a cheese factory. An abundant supply of cheap, succulent, casilv digestible, wholesome, nutritious food should be provided. pure cold water should be allowed in quanities limited only by the COW s capacity and desire to drink. Cows should bo prohibited from drinking stagnant, impure water. The responsibility for the efficacy of that beneficial prohibition rests fully with the individual farmer. All the vessels used in the handling of milk should be cleansed thoroughly immediately after their use. A washing in tepid or cold water, to which has been added a little soda, and a subsequent scalding with boiling water, will prepare them for airing, that they may remain perfectly sweet. Tin pails only should be used. All milk should be strained immediately after it is drawn. All milk should be aired immediately after it has been strained. The treatment is equally benneficial to the evening and morning milk. In warm weather all milk should be cooled to the temperature of the atmosphere after it has been aired, but not before. Milk is better for being kept over night in small quantities, rather than a large quantity in one vessel. Milk-stands should be constructed to shade from the sun the cans or vessels containing milk, as well as to shelter them from rains.