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Show The roasting-pan is of standard size, 20 inches long, 14 inches wide top measurement and 3 inches deep. The cover to this is close fitting and insulated. in-sulated. ' Upon this is placed the gal-vanized-iron box with its removable top. The insulated cover is made as follows : Take a sheet of heavy galvanized Iron and cut it large enough to allow it to project three-fourths inch over the edge of the pan. Bend the edges of the sheet so as to form a shallow box with sides three-eighths inch high. Then cut out a cover for the shallow box. Cut a hole one and one-half inch in diameter In the center, through the top and bottom, of the small box. Iron braces' should be placed crosswise of the box to strengthen it. Theri fill the shallow box completely with paper pa-per or asbestos sheets, after which the top is carefully soldered on, care being be-ing taken to make the seams absolutely abso-lutely tight. Solder a round, galvanized galvan-ized Iron pipe, four and one-half Inches long and one and one-half inch in diameter di-ameter In the hole In the center of the cover. Solder flanges beneath cover so that they will meet the edge of the roasting pan, thus making a tight cover. On the top of the insulated cover solder strong folded galvauized-lron galvauized-lron strips, three-eighths inch high, to form a square 15 inches by 15 inches., for holding the upper galvanlzed-iron box. On top of the cover soldei also four strips of stiff, gnlvanlzeil-iron eight inches long and three-eighths inch wide. These strips should extend three- ili ,1, .1. .1. J..T. JLJLMJ..1, ,t.,l, it, it, ,t, .1, DEVICE INSURES CLEANSED MILK Steam Destroys Disease Germs and Injurious Bacteria. SMALL OUTFIT EASILY MADE Tests Show Five-Minute Treatment at Dairy Utensils Is Sufficient Two-Burner Two-Burner Wickless Kerosene Stove Is Useful. Steam Is the arch enemy of harmful bacteria that lurks in milk utensils. But steam Jsn't the common method of sterilizing used In small dairies, because be-cause It is not always available. In fact, lacking It, dairy utensils on small farms are not often sterilized satisfactorily, satis-factorily, and as a result diseases hide In milk and may be carried to many families. Washing milk cans and utensils, uten-sils, at least by the processes ordinarily or-dinarily used, does not Insure freedom free-dom from infection and contamination. contamina-tion. For $10 or $15 a simple steam sterilizer, ster-ilizer, which will serve a small dairy, can be made in a short time. At that price which includes a small kerosene stove ;this sterilizer should be practical prac-tical In any dairy from which cream or milk is sold. And the additional keeping qualities which the sterilization steriliza-tion of utensils will give milk and cream probably will pay for the cost of the sterilizer In one season. For when utensils are treated with steam all bacteria or disease germs which may be in them are destroyed, and therefore milk and cream when placed in these utensils will keep sweet much longer. Directions for Making. This. Is the way to make a small sterilizer. Specialists of the United States department of agriculture, who describe the process, say this sterilizer will be of greatest use to those who have one, two or three ten-gallon ten-gallon or smaller cans, with a similar number of palls nnd a strainer cloth. It can be used, however, with a large number of cans. It is made of a roasting pan, a cover, a galvanlzed-lron box and a removable top to the box. j PATRIOTISM AND GOOD $ MILK. Every owner of a dairy herd j should consider it his duty to 1 himself and to the communlfV T T to keep only healthy cows, sup- 4, T ply them with wholesome feed j j and keep them iu cleun, comfort- X able quarters. There Is not only T J patriotism In the service to his ? patrons which results from such J t, management, but there is more profit. X I The milkers and all who han- 4 T die the milk should realize that J they have in their charge a food J which is easily contaminated J and should, therefore, take alt J reasonable precautions to pre- j, ? vent the milk from becoming a i, source of danger to themselves X T and to others. T X The consumer should under- t stand that clean, safe milk is T j worth more and its production J costs more than milk which con- T jt taiiis dirt and disease germs; j T therefore he should he willing to I pay more for it than for dirty f t jj milk, w hich is dear at any price. 'I' '4 1 1 I "" ". t FOR $10 TO $15. SMALL DAIR- $ t IES CAN HAVE STEAM t I STERILIZER. j The cost of the steam sterlllz- er Itself should not be more than J T $8. If It is necessary to buy a small stove the cost will be $4 i or $5 more. The materials used t. in it can be bought at prices J about as follows: Boasting pan, I 25 cents to $1, depending on I T the grade of Iron. The galvan- X ized Iron with asbestos nnd con- X J structlon work should not cost T J more than $7, and the work can j. T be done by any tinner. A two- T X burner wickless kerosene stove X T costs from $1 to ?5 ; but In many t cases it will not he necessary to i purchase a stove. The details of making the sterilizer and sug- , gestions as to how it should he J operated are described in Farm- crs' Bulletin 71S of the United $ J States department of agrlcul- j X ture. X When properly operated this X sterilizer destroys practically hll X T the bacteria In the utensils, In- T I eluding all disease germs, which X T may he present. It will accom- T I pllsh tho same results as any sterilizer in which steam not tin- T X der pressure is used. Expert- T mcnts with It show that tho T fivo-mlnute steaming Is, for nil T practical purposes, as good as I X tho 15 to .'10 mtnule steimlng T T usually recommended. X eighths inch above the cover and run from a distance of one Inch from the corners to one inch from the steam outlet out-let in the center. The galvanlzed-lron box has no bottom bot-tom but fits In the square formed by the four strips on the cover. The box Is 11 Inches high. Inside it, three-fourths inch from the top and one-half Inch from one side, a stiff wire should ha riveted nnd soldered. It is sometimes desirable to re-enforce the box at each corner with angle iron six Inches long nnd one-half Inch wide, riveted halfway half-way up the side. Kerosene Stove Used.; In the department of agriculture's tests of the outfit described a two-burner two-burner wickless kerosene stovo was used with excellent results. Tho sterilizer, ster-ilizer, however, may be plaoed on the kitchen stove or over any other source of heat, such as a gas, gasoline, or laundry stove, which burns either wood or coal. Good results also are obtained ob-tained at very little cost by building under the sterilizer a small brick furnace fur-nace 12 Inches high. It Is necessary to have sutllclent heat to furnish steam at the end of the outlet pipe at least 205 degrees Fahrenheit, and 210 to 211 degrees Fahrenheit should be oblalnei If possible. |