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Show How Germs Get Into Milk. In tho first place, a Rood many germs nre living In the milk while It la jet In the udder of the tow, and In thn next place a good many more fall Into tho milk pall from those floating In the air, being caught In the streams of descending descend-ing milk, s.i8 bulletin 15.', New Jersey Kxpeilment Station. Still others are Introduced In-troduced clinging to the particles of dirt, dust, hair, ehalf, etc, that become loosened from the udder and ndjatent surfuce nf the ion, nnd from the hands, arms, etc., of the mllkei, and In fly time from the whisking tall of the peat t ml animal. It Is the ptesence of nunieious pnrtklCH of this sott which Is responsible responsi-ble for the Keneral practice of straining milk. But no strainer Is tine enough to retain the small particles, and least of ull tho germs that have been washed out of tho partltlts. In those dairies where the prattlie nf keeping cowa und stalls thoroughly clean has not been adopted, the dirt that most frequently gets Into milk consists of particles of manure The presence of even n little manure Impuits to the milk the peculiar llavor called "coscj," as though It were tho distinctive odor of this elomesjlo species. Hut this flavor Is quite dlstlntt, lrom the odor of new. nuro milk (also found In tho cow's breath, over which poets havo laved In ccstasj). In these dnjB of "modern dalrj progress" the luoductlon of "cowej ' milk Is both In-cxcusnblo In-cxcusnblo nnd leprehenslhle. Milk hns a strong attraction for odors, nnd read-lly read-lly absorbs un) piedomlnnnt odor of the air, etc., It la In contact with, hence It is not strange that It extracts the odor of the dirt that falls Into It. In fnc t, If (he milch tow's food has nny peculiar flavor It affects the milk. These various disagreeable flavors in milk aro of less consequenco thun the fact that milk receives tho germs that inhabit the dirt which get" Into It Of nil dirt, manure Is the richest In Rerm content, and what Is even more Important, It contains herms that are parasitic In the Intes-tines Intes-tines and henco are lUblo to produce disease. |