Show DUST IN THE COW STABLE f clean cows and clean stable feces sary to clean milk it good milk Is to be had the cow must be kept clean all the time and must be certainly clean at milking time this keeping clean includes keeping dust from collecting on her flanks and working into the skin for the most part the dust comes from dry manure and this Is little by little beaten by the feet of the people walking in the stable and by the feet ut the animals into a dust so fine that man can see it in the ordinary light this dust Is frequently the carrier of all kinds of germs many of them harmless but many of them the producers of disease the only way to keep them out of the milk Is to keep them from being produced in the stable by keeling it thoroughly washed out that it Is not possible tor any manure to remain to dry up and be beaten into dust this prevention of debt Is one of the very essential points in keeping the cows clean but whether or not the dust has been al lowed to develop the cow s udder and anks should be washed before each that the certainty of cleanly ness may be made doubly sure we hear a great deal about dirt in the city milk says the tanners re view but the experienced milk producer knows that dust Is the chief medium by which the dirt gets into the city mallte it Is not such an impossible task to prevent manure dust as might seem but it requires care and the use of a good deal of water but there Is another kind of dust that gets into the milk and makes trouble and that Is the dust that comes from the dry hay as feed or tho straw used as bedding this while not objectionable as the other kind frequently makes a good del ol 01 trouble by causing unusual growths in the milk sometimes these growths take the form of in milk and the owner of the cows imagines that one of them must be sick this kind of milk frequently ere ates a sensation when it Is sold to a city customer not infrequently this dust that comes from the hay is pro deuced by molds in which case it sometimes causes bad flavor in the milk which unfits it tor all purposes every farmer that wishes to pro duce perfect milk should take meas ures for keeping down dust in the tables |