Show CAREFULLY CLEAN DAIRY UTENSILS vital in production of all sanitary milk the careful cleaning of utensils la 13 vital in the production of sanitary milk Ves frela should first be rinsed with lukewarm water or ordinary well veil or cistern water filter to remove the milk then washed with moden moderately tely hot water containing a small quantity of on an alkali cleaning solution after which they should be scalded in hot water and inverted to dry they should cot be dried by wiping with a cloth since that will cause contamination wiping Is not necessary when hen scalding water Is used as the lie heated vessels will dry of their own accord while hile wany many dairymen dalry men depend upon the kitchen stove stoie for heating water a more dependable plan Is to have a tw two hole coal oil or gasoline stove or laundry stove store on fits a copper or tin boiler ample water can thus be quickly and economically heated for larger dairies a small vertical steam boiler may be used ud such a boiler has the advantage of prodding live steam by which the utensils may be more quickly and effectively sterilized milking should be done with dry hands A pall of clean water waiter and a clean towel should be placed convenient to the on and they should wash and wipe their hands frequently quent ly bacteria are minute single celled plants so small as to be visible only under a powerful microscope awen ty five thousand averaged ae raged sized bacteria placed end to end would measure only an loch inch in length A single arop of sour milk contains as many as arty millions of them under favorable conditions one of these thee germs d divides into two every half hour milk Is an ideal medium for their growth the bacteria commonly found in milk grow best at temperatures between SO 80 and DS 98 degrees fahrenheit buttermilk excellent feed for dairy calves A reader who lives near a creamery that usually has a surplus of buttermilk to sell at a few cents a hundred Is anxious to know if buter buttermilk milk will talie tahe the place of in calf feeding it will says the montreal star if very ry little wash water lias has been added to the buttermilk in the making of the butter it will have the same saine feeding value as normal skim milk its value is as a feed was well demonstrated hy by sir william newman Lor reville ont oct almost a score of years ago this leading creamery roan man was operating in h a section where there was very little improved dairy stock ile he conceived the idea of going to the cheese districts further east where there were good herds of grade lot lid steins find and buying a carload of calves that would otherwise be aslaug slaughtered literee lit ered feeding them on the buttermilk from his creamery with grain and roughage and selling to his patrons we do not know just how successful the plan was in improving the dairy stock of the community which was the main objective but buk we do know that the calves grew wonderfully w well ell on the buttermilk and with less bowel trouble than would have been experienced with the same number of calves on skim milk |