Show COVERED TOP MILK PAIL recommended many farmers have never thought of real advantages of that kind by C A BURNS dairy department oklahoma A and M X college still water those who are not accustomed to using a covered top milk pall have probably never stopped to think of what real advantage such a pall may be in the production of clean milk by a covered top pall Is meant a milk pall pail so constructed that it has only a small opening in the top the rest of the top being covered alth metal of which the pall Is made the object of such it pall is that of preventing dirt and hair from falling into the milk As the old saying goes an ounce of prevention Is worth a pound of cure tills this Is surely one place where the saying holds true dirt and hair mean bacteria in the he milk and bacteria cannot be strained or filtered out Dac bacteria teria tire are always more or less injurious to the quality of the milk and to all milk products this means a lower price forthe milk and eventually a lower price for the milk products but this Is not till nil dirty bacteria laden milk products oftentimes are quite injurious to health and especially the health of children of course a great crent deal depends upon the as to whether or riot not the milk Is 19 clean or dirty but under average conditions other factors being similar a covered milk pall pail with an Ici opening pening six els inches in diameter stands only one chance in four of catching a hair or other foreign material that it a pall pail 12 inches in diameter would in other words a pall fifth a six inch diameter will catch only about one fourth as much dirt and hair ps as a pall with to 0 12 inch diameter |