Show D y aJ BA BACTERIAL COUNT IMPORTANT TEST Nett Neg Necessary essary That Milk 1 Dealers I B Be Be Able to Judge Quality i It Is Just as necessary for tor the dairymen to understand the sIgnIficance significance cance and ni application of ot bacterial counts In the production of sanitary milk as It Is for them to understand the use and ami significance of ot the milk fat tat test said Robert S. S Breed of ot the Geneva Genera experiment station Doctor Breed cited two uses of ot I bacterial counts In New York Tork state that affect the tile dairyman's pocketbook Intimately and directly One of these he said sad is the use being made by public health control contro officials officiate and less frequently by milk dealers I to Judge the sanitary quality of ot milk When results of ot these laboratory examinations examInations ex ex- are unsatisfactory they are used as a n basis for tor bringing pressure pressure pres pres- sure directly or Indirectly upon the dairyman to Improve his equipment and methods of handling milk The second use touches the dairyman's pocketbook directly inasmuch as premiums are being paid at many grade A milk plants for tor milk having bacterial counts of less than or less than per cubic centime centime- ter Failure to meet these standards causes canses the loss Joss of premium money that really represents the greater part of the profit to the dairyman daryman Dairymen should familiarize themselves themselves themselves them them- selves with laboratory methods whose use affects their business so intimate intimate- ly Payments of premiums for high class dass milk is sound providing the basis used In determining premiums is fair and equitable No more satisfactory satisfactory satisfactory satis satis- factory system of paying premiums has yet et been devised than to pay them on the tile basis of bacterial counts |