Show SAFE MILK IS CLEAN M ILK Is natures first food As ions iong ns as milk Is sweet and rich and aad tastes good most ot of us are satisfied we seldom ask where it comes from or whether in its boutney from the cow to the jhb consumer it has been handled in a clean and careful manner yet milk Is a food in which disease germs grow easily and rapidly in the old days milk from any cow was considered fit to use and any old und kind of a milk bucket was good enough our milk supply today Is far better belter than it used to be but there Is still room for improvement the standards established by local health departments and the efforts ot of the large dairy companies to improve lin their product have been largely responsible for this movement As a result the milk supply in our large cities Is better than in the country districts acry ethry mother should know what are the necessary factors in pure milk and should insist on getting detring a milk that as Is at least beast harmless r the principal diseases caused by impute impure mick are typhoid fever tuber cu culos losis ls diphtheria sore throat and probably scarlet fever feier I 1 k U As cattle are especially susceptible I 1 t to 0 tuberculosis all ail cows coves furnishing milk for sale should lie be tuberculin t tested ell i e d the principal danger from typhoid fever Is the use uie of polluted water in washing milk cons cans bottles dippers and other utensils no one who bo lias has a sore throat or any contagious dis disease ellue be at al milk coas or to handle milk for sale As it Is practically impossible to protect milk produced over fiver any large area from contamination all milk j should 14 be pasteurized before it Is sold T alila requires heating beating the ellk to a temperature of degrees for thirty minutes and then cooling it to 50 degrees fahrenheit this art process destroys nay any disease germs germa which may be in the lie alil milk pasteur lin izila il allick lie bi attly put irita clean bottles and sealed sea before delivery As milk Is an indispensable food for children and Is one of our most valuable foods for persons of any age its purity should be beyond question pure milk cots costs a little more but the additional cost la Is well worth while bile |