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Show CLEAN MILK AND MILKING. A dairyman writes on the subject as follows: Having recently commenced selling milk, I find it requires much care to keep tne cows porlectly clean, and have adopted some new measures which may be of some interest to other milkers. In the first placa the floor on which the cows stand is raised so that tho water will run back into the trench, which is about six inches below the floor. Before I begin to milk I take a hoe and clean this floor. 1 then take a bucket large enough to hold a cow's bag, fill it with cold water, with which I wash their bags thoroughly, which not only makes them clean, but prevents pre-vents their teats from becoming sore. Sawdust is then spread on the floor, and as I have some cows which are inclined in-clined to brush my face when milking, I take a cord, pass it over a pulley which is fastened overhead behind the cows, attach a weight to one end of tbe cord, slip-noose the other end around the cow's tail, which prevents her from brushing dirt into the milk; then brush the cows and begin to milk where I becan to wash. I milk into a wooden pail, turn it into a tin strainer pail, and then strain it into a tin can through a cloth strainer, which is attached at-tached to the top of the can by a wire; and we hear no complaint of dirty milk. |