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Show KEEP DIRT FROM MILK While some of the dirt in milk comes from the air, the hands and clothing of the milker, and unclean strainers, pails, cans and other utensils, uten-sils, the greater part drops from the body of the cows during milking. Straining removes the coarse particles parti-cles of dirt but eliminates neither the fine dirt nor bacteria. The process Improves the appearance of the milk but may give a false impression of the real cleanliness of the milk if the results are used as the sole guide. Cheese cloth and wire strainers, be-' be-' cause of their coarse meshes, are unsatisfactory un-satisfactory for straining milk. Absorbent Ab-sorbent cotton and filter cloth, which kept clipped are much easier to clean. The use of a hooded or small-top milking pail also aids materially in preventing dirt from falling into the milk. -, can be bought from drug stores or dairy supply houses at comparatively moderate cost, remove most of the sediment -from milk. Since the body of the cow is the chief source of dirt in milk she should be groomed frequently. In addition the flanks, udder and adjacent belly should be cleaned with a moist cloth just before milking. These parts if |