Show SOME FAULTS IN DAIRIES Conditions Which Ono City Milk Inspector In-spector round to Exist on Some Farms A city milk Inspector I visited the farms supplying milk to his city and found many Improper conditions existing exist-ing In his import given below can you find any Item which would condemn your dairy I 1 Barns not sufficiently ventilated 2 Sunoundlngs not sanitary she dally ns to removal of manure which I usually found piled up against the barn In a convenient place This should not be allowed to accumulate but should bo removed dally 3 Stanchions should bo better drained and no stagnant water or pigs allowed In the barn yard 4 Milk houses not usually provided with screens or cement floors Flies noticed In milk C Cows udders should be cleansed better Some had an entirely wrong Idea of cleanliness both as to tho cows and as to the hands and tho clothing of the milkers In one Instance a small bucket of cold water and a thin dirty looking rag were used for all tho cows By the time the udders of six cows wero washed off the water and wash rag woro not very clean G In several dairies 1 each milker would use several palls and after filling fill-ing onco would leave It stand uncovered open to the Hies and numerous sources of Infection always present At two places I found helpers straining milk through dirty cloths In which a handful of tiles had found their last resting place 7 Cans not sterlllod by boiling water wa-ter or steam but hastily washed with lukewarm water and set aside to dry under roof sometimes with cover on This should not be done It Is Important Impor-tant to sterilize them with boiling water wa-ter or superheated steam every time they arc used then put upon a clean frame upside down with covers olT and fully exposed to fresh air Bottles and other containers should be treated likewise 5 Chickens allowed too many liberties liber-ties nbout tho place It Is Impossible to train a chicken but the screens which are needed to keep out tiles and other Insects will keep them out 9 I Improper feeding Some dairymen consider certain feed good which I do not think Is fit to use I will report more fully upon this Important subject when I have concluded my Investiga tions 10 At one farm I noticed dogs wero used for driving his cows This 1 do < < not believe good practice 11 In one place I found a bad well The water was used for the rows and Also for rinsing the cans Whon typhoid ty-phoid fever Is caused by tho milk anij It has been traced to tho milk In several sev-eral epidemics It Is Invariably duo to water used In rinsing the milk cans or other containers with infected water This well was condemned 12 Whitewash not much used in tho barns The above criticisms do not apply to most of the dairies Somo were models of cleanliness barn clean fresh and well ventllntod stanchions properly kept and r1 mined milk houseclean house-clean as a good Ir 1 > f keepers kitchen screens In nnaiij everywhere and cleanliness notkcahle everywhere Tho fact that some dairies were models of cleanliness convinced the inspector that It was not ncccssuy to have the faults mentioned In any of them |