Show Germs in Milking Pails The most Important source of germs In milk are the utensils such as pails palls strainers and the cans that are used for the storage storage storage stor stor- age and shipment of the product The cleaning of the milk pail pall or can must be very thorough otherwise after after after aft aft- er standing empty empt for n a few hours It a amny may contain uncountable billions of t germs To Illustrate At the Illinois experiment station some cans that had bar been well wel washed and steamed and then held for 24 29 hours In warm weather er contained so many bacteria that when they were filled with fresh milk milka a sample taken out of a can as soon ns as It had hail been we well stirred contained one million germs erms per c c. c c. c or per drop |