HYGIENIC DAIRYING

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 46, 10 March 1937, Page 15

HYGIENIC DAIRYING

An Advantage to The Producer The term "cleanlixxess" is very broad in its application, but when applied to dairyl.ng means so xnuch to the advantage' of the producer. Most troublss spring from the presence of microbes which ha^e grown up in the dirt which surrounds things. The health and tho capacity the herd to produce is largely dependent on cleanliness because those troubles seriously affectlng the udder come fro-n previous infection, and are contrac(ed only by lack of cleanliness. The health of the calf which is the future producer is efEeeted, too, by failure to keep its conditions and surxbundings clean. It is essential to feed calves in clean and thoroughly scalded paUs, and to give them milk that ba not been coutaminated by being nret rasaed into a dirty barrel or r-eceptacle. The calf yard on many a farm is usually a very small enclosure, certainly conveniently situated to the bails, but unfortunately used for the purpose of holding calves for very many years continuously. A small herd such as this becomes infected with calf ailments and these troubles are perpetuated. A young calf is extremely delicate and should not at tha very commencement of its existenee be submiHed to the possibility of disease which may weaken Jt 10 the rest of its career.