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Show SAFE MILK IS CLEAN TVTILK is Nature's first food. As long as milk is sweet and rich and tastes good, most of us are satisfied. We seldom ask where It comes from or whether, In Its journey from the cow to the consumer, it has been handled in a clean and careful manner. Yet milk is a food in which disease germs grow easily and rapidly. rap-idly. In the old days, milk from any cow wns considered fit to use and any old kind of a milk bucket was good enough. Our milk supply today Is far belter than it used to be, but there is still room for Improvement. The standards established by local health departments and the efforts of the large dairy companies to improve their product have been largely responsible re-sponsible for this movement. As a result, re-sult, the mill; supply In our large cities is better than in the country districts. Every mother should know what are the necessary factors in pure milk and should Insist on getting a milk that Is, at least, harmless. The principal diseases caused by Impure Im-pure milk are typhoid fever, tuber culosis, diphtheria, septic sore throat, and probably scarlet fever. As cattle are especially susceptible to tuberculosis, all cows furnishing milk for sale should he tuberculin tested. The principal danger from typhoid fever is the use of polluted water in washing milk cans, bottles, dippers, and other utensils. No une who has a sore throat or any contagious disease should he allowed al-lowed to milk cows or to handle milk for sale. As it is practically impossible to protect pro-tect milk produced over any large area from cuntamination, all milk should be pasteurized before It is sold. Tills requires heating tiie milk to a ternpeni-turo ternpeni-turo of l."4 degrees Fahrenheit for thirty minutes and then cooling it to 50 degrees Fahrenheit This nnv rss destroys any disease germs which may he In the milk. I'usteur- .a U Ulna Mhiuni Ij U.inJr-tila U'i plli lii?. clean bottles and scaled before 'leiivery. As milk is an indispensable food for children and is one of our mot valuable foods for persons of any age. its purity should be beyond question. Pure milk costs a little more hut the additional cost Is well wor'h whiJA. |