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Te Aroha News, 15 February 1890, Page 8

Washing the Churn.—lt is curious to note how differently people go about washing dairy utensils (says the National Stockman). Some wash pans, pails, and Vats carefully witli cold water, in which is a little salt or soda ; then rinse, and then thoroughly'scald with hot water. Others pour on boiling water first, sometimes rinse with cold water, more often with hot. Then there are others who are not very particular about any method. The first plan is far uperior. The idea is to get all the milk off a..d out of the pails, etc., before scalding, Boiling water seems to cook milk, cream, and buttermilk on to and into the utensils, and then, like any other milk substance, there is a change soon that imparts its bad influence to the succeeding lots of milk. As between nil lint or cold water to wash dairy fixtures, take the latter with a little Fait, and far better results will follow. The wooden churn had better stand with good brine in it than he washed, as many people do, byboiling all the buttcl adhering to the inside of the churn into the wood, instead of fiist scouring it off with a little water and salt, and then proceeding to wash.