Show COULD THE SAME BE DONE IN PAROWAN VALLEY the following paragraph was taken from the last issue of the milford news shows what the dairymen in the town of minersville Miners ville are doing in the way of improving improving the quality of the milk shipped out from that community the Mi Minervi nerville Ue dairy association is quite proud of the new barn bam which will care for cows when capacity is reached at present are being milked they are producing grade A milk which is being shipped to las vegas nerada the milk gathered in paragon Par awona awon and paragonah Para gonah has also been shipped to the nevada city for some time past at prices that are better than the company can pay when cheese is made from the milk but this was discontinued a week or so ago because of a recent ordinance passed by las vegas which permits only grade A milk to enter that city for resale to consumers milk produced in this valley is classed as manufacturers Manufacture es grade of milk or only fit for consumption after being turned into some manufactured product there is no grade A milk produced here and the producers are being penalized for not pro ducting that grade the las vegas ordinance was passed on demand of the army which has several installations there as a means of stopping undulant fever to produce A grade milk the cows must be milked in a milking barn bam separate and apart from where they are kept and fed the milk must be taken care of in specially built for that purpose with facilities for cooling the milk and also sterilizing all equipment used in milking bottling etc so when you look at the way we dai dairy ry here you can plainly see how far off we are from producing grade A milk minersville Miners ville was in the same fix as local dair dairymen amen they realized that it would be impossible to have each of the small producers install the necessary equipment to raise the standard ot of milk produced so they went about it in a different way they built a community milk house where the farmers drive their cows in to be milked and have the milk properly taken care of this milk is then of high enough quality to go on the las vegas market where it is in great demand at a premium price no milk goes into the miners ville shipment that does not go through the new plant probably all local local producers arrange to come to one central milking place but the larger producers could provide for themselves while smaller producers here in the the city orin paragonah Para gonah may be able to cooperate in a central installation |