. Town and city. A Model DairyClean cows, clean stables, and clean milk Milk from these model dairies, as they are called,is pure and sweet and safe. It is an astonishing con-trast to that which comes from what we might call the microbe dairies. Here the untidy farmer seems to sayto his microbes, Truly I m the best friend you have,and I 11 do everything to please you. In his stable, FOOD INSPECTION 157 therefore, the inspector ^aw straw and dust on ceiling andfloor, cows ungroomed, pans and pails unscalded. Whenmilking time came there was no washing of hands ormilk bag; on the contrary, with h
. Town and city. A Model DairyClean cows, clean stables, and clean milk Milk from these model dairies, as they are called,is pure and sweet and safe. It is an astonishing con-trast to that which comes from what we might call the microbe dairies. Here the untidy farmer seems to sayto his microbes, Truly I m the best friend you have,and I 11 do everything to please you. In his stable, FOOD INSPECTION 157 therefore, the inspector ^aw straw and dust on ceiling andfloor, cows ungroomed, pans and pails unscalded. Whenmilking time came there was no washing of hands ormilk bag; on the contrary, with his hands as they were,. Unclean Milk is sold from Here the milkman took the pail, rinsed it with water thatmight or might not have disease microbes in it, went tothe dusty stable, raised the dust by kicking the cow tomake her stand up, slapped her on the side to make hermove along, sat down on his stool, and began to milkvigorously. To soften his hands, he wet them with the first milkhe drew, letting it drop from them into the milk pail. 158 TOWN AND CITY As he now pumped up and down against the milkbag bits of dust went into the pail with the milk. Atthe same time flies troubled the cow, and to drive themaway she often switched her tail from side to side. Thisraised more dust, and scattered tail hairs in the milk.
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