Show YOU CAN pasteurize MILK A city mother was telling a country mother how lucky she was abut she could raise lier her baby where there was cle clean an air and open fields and sunshine 1 I know these these it lire re important said the con country mother but you city people have pasteurized milk while we never know what hat dis ease our babies nill ill get in the milk they drink the country mother was wag right of milk Is one of the greatest t boons to health that the city offers children milk Is one of mans best foods but it Is also a good food for germs germs grow well in milk milk from cattle certified to be free from disease and handled by persons free from disease is good wholesome milk but unless tills this certification of health has been made then a family should not take any chances on milk that Is used for drinking or in the preparation of uncooked food milk may of 0 course be used safely in cooked or baked dishes milk as stated above is a food in in which many kinds of germs thrive some of these are harmless to man I 1 but unfortunately many are decidedly harmful among these are the tuberculosis typhoid fever septic sore throat and infectious diarrhea germs pasteur discovered that when he heated milk to a certain degree for a certain length of time these harmful bacteria were destroyed aud the milk was safe for drinking tills this principle Is the one used in the large commercial pasteurizing pasteur izing plants in the large cities in a survey made several years ago we learned that 70 per cent of the population in illinois outside of chicago was without benefit ot of pasteurization so in the research laboratory of 0 the university of illinois we worked out a plan that would allow for home pasteurization we ve demised two simple temperature indicators containing chemicals that would clear at the desired temperatures by the first iou can easily tell when the right heat beat point is reached by the second ond when the danger point of coolness is reached and the milk Is no lunger longer safe for the baby the heat telling indicator Is a sa sausage u sag gesh ge sh shaped aped glass tube 11 mm in diameter and 45 43 mm long into which rug mg of palm itle acid is placed the cooling point indicator is a glass tube 4 I 1 2 mm mal in dilill diameter approximately 8 inches in length with a bulb blown at one end this bulb is filled with menthol and the open end of the tube sealed with these two tubes a vacuum bottle 0 of f one quart capacity and a pan of more than one quart capacity with a side lip to facilitate pouring of milk from pan into bottle you are ready to go into the pasteurization business pasteurization technique 1 clean out vacuum bottle with hot soap water ater several times rinse well with water about degrees F nil fill bottle with this water and let stand 2 wash the stopper well place in a pan of water and boll for ten minutes in pour water out of pan leaving the clean stopper in the pan 3 clean the lipped pan well and pour a quart of strained milk into it milk should be less than 12 hours from the cows 4 drop indicator no 1 into the milk place pan on stove and bring temperature of milk up slowly stirring constantly uth alth a clean spoon 5 when the indicator becomes transparent the temperature of the milk has reached remove milk from stove store immediately and take out indicator with the spoon 6 pour the hot water out of the vacuum bottle 7 pour the hot mill milk into the bottle seal sea with stopper 8 set the bottle in a warm cupboard in the kitchen 9 do not use this milk until it has stood in the vacuum bottle for at least one hour 10 when ready to use the milk I 1 hold bold one end on of indicator no 2 in the hand and put the bulb end c rid down into the fit milk in the bottle hold for two to four minutes if the milk Is above 11 the bull bulb will clear if below it will remain opaque j 11 if the bulb clears pour out enough milk for a feeding edlitz fe ani and rel rei place the stopper and put pill the hie bottle hack back into the cupboard i 12 it if the bull bulb dues does not clear the milk Is unsafe ife rothe baby it can then be used in cooking or set aside to sour if this technique is followed carefully the milk usually stays safe for for about eight to ten hours so that a pasteurization in the morning and one in in the evening will give the baby safe sa fe milk all the time 0 unions |