DIRTY MILKING MACHINES.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1804, 17 July 1913, Page 10

DIRTY MILKING MACHINES.

A SERIOUS MENACE. , _ Some- interesting remarks on tho subject of milking machines were made by Mr. in his presidential address at the opening of the Farmers' Union Conference. Many_ men, said Mr. Wilson, had gone into dairying > without much experience. They had installed milking machines, and had not- been trained in the sanitary habits of a firstclass dairy. These machines were becoming a distinct menace to the trade. If they wero not kept clean, the butter or cheese ■inade. from milk which had gone through them could not be first-class, yet it was certain that the industry could not do without them under present conditions. In butter-inaldng the milk was to' a largo extent filtered by oentrifugal force, to which the milk was subjected in tho separator, but in .cheese this was not done, and any impurities in the milk, unless drawn off with tho whey, went into tho cheese. Mr. Cudtjio had lately made the alarming statement that only 23 per cent, of the machines which his officers had examined wero clean. Home separation, too, was another source of danger if the separator was not kept clean. This machine also had come to stay. In the case of butter-making, tho pasteurising of the cream made it possible to get rid of the deleterious ferments. How they were to inculcate cleanliness to careless dairy people was a problem which must be solved, or the reputation they had so carefully built up would bo lost. Already there had been serious complaints as to the quality of our cheese, and Mr. Cuddie' and his officers had been very emphatic of the necessity of improvement. It was to be hoped that the Department's warning, together with the indifferent reports on last season's cheese, would ensure a change for the better.