Show r I r o r r Keeping Milk In Hot Weather The problem of keeping milk during the heated term Is very much greater than that of keeping milk at my other tlmo of tho year All bacterial life thrives and tho laws of bacterial life have provided for enormous Increase f I ot bacteria In ft very short time under summer temperatures Conditions that would permit milk to remain sweet for 24 hours In tho winter time will result In milk turning sour In IS hours In tho summer time In tho winter time a poorly washed can would Infect tho milk and result In tlmo In souring It Tho multiplication of the germs would be very slow however how-ever and most ot tho milk would bo k trod up before It had had tlmo to sour In the summer It Is necessary that excessive care bo taken In tho washing of the milk vessels They should bo first washed and rinsed In cold water which washIng will remove re-move moat of the casein from the sides of tho vessels If hot water Is used first It will result In coagulating tho casein and tho latter will stick to tho sides and scams At ordinary temperatures It Is tho butter fat that sticks to tho sides Therefore It Is reasonable after the casein has been rinsed out to detach the fat by the usa of boiling water In cases where > the vessels of tin are not new soda should bo used In each can as this r will combine with the casein It should bo made certain that tho water is boiling hot and that It remains long enough In the cans to destroy all germ life This may bo assured by coverIng cover-Ing tho cans as by this means tho heat will be retained for a long time Merely pouring hot water Into the cans and pouring It out again will generally remove tho traces of butterfat butter-fat but will not necessarily destroy all germ life After the hot water has been poured from the cans they should bo again rinsed In cold water and then sunned This sunning isl very Important and Is made much of by tho condensing companies They prescribe rules that must bo followed by tho men that supply them with milk and one of these rules Is that In summer time these cans must be exposed for hours to the penetrating rays of tho sun If ono will In hot weather go through a dairy region that Is engaged particularly In supply lug milk to the largo condensers ho will seo everywhere rows of cans on racks and scaffolds so placed that tho suns rays will enter tho Interiors Tho sunlight Is germicidal In Its effects t ef-fects Cleanliness Is the first ronnin n w lie of milk keeping The second is cold Tho milk should bo cooled as quickly as possible and to as low a temperature aq possible and placed n a room or In water that Is cold These simple principles lie at the bottom of keeping milk in summer Drinking Places In the Cow Pasture Cows are animals that seem to prefer pre-fer dirty water to clean Tho cow is tho only farm animal that will drink warm wner from mud puddles Ins preferont to cool water from waterIng water-Ing trough It Uf therefore necessary If wo desire the cow to drink pure water to deprive her of sources ofi supply of Impure water The obnoxious t obnox-ious weeds that surround tho drinking I drink-ing places In tho cow pastures are frequently tho source of taints In u milk especially when such weeds In cludo garlic and wild onions Tho elimination of these polluted drinking places In tho pastures will to a very j large extent take away from the cow tho Inducement to sample these obnoxious ob-noxious weeds It Is always doslr able to give the cow only pure water as lu many cases tho stagnant water In the pastures is a source of contain Inatlon to the milk supply Here and there are cases of stringiness or ropl ness In milk On Investigation It has been found that this abnormal condition condi-tion of the milk was produced by ml auto fungi which were found to thrive In stagnant pools Somo scientists say that the spores of the fungi pass through tho cow and Into the milk ducts while others declare that the udders of tho cow come Into contact with tho stagnant pools and that from the outside of these udders the spores I fall Into tho milk pails when tho milk is being drawn By whichever way tho spores reached tho milk is of no particular interest As the stagnant water was the source of contamination contamina-tion In either case the prevention of such accidents requires tho elimination elimina-tion In the pastures of all such drinking drink-Ing places Elmer Ashton Bureau Co III In Farmers Review |