ODOURS IN MILK.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VIII, Issue 2307, 29 May 1886, Page 2 (Supplement)

ODOURS IN MILK.

'.' We.do.hbt'.allude to the odours absorbed. by the.milk,;cbnti to-thqs'o'impat'ted to.it immcdiatulykHt' itlui ;i ' time *of "riilking. Again weask,:*as w.u liaye'fdone before—" " How'\ivili'y-'diiiry«)«'*"v/iwh tho' : uddon of the now'before milking tlieiiiT'Somo dairymen will even read: with' astonishment our: iiu'iaivy, for "it' is'.well-known tint, all o'vi'r.iiiis nrea.t country,- with but few exceptions; ;ue atuiuaut ';;om to tho stalls and inilkstho cows without washing thd udders, arid carries the. milk to the milk room.'V Yet iri this short period of time, before the: milk can even cool, it has received greater damage than can occur to it in any other manner.

In tho first place, where the cows are kept in stalls, it U not an oasy matter to have them drop tho solid or. liquid to the rear, and entirely out of the stall. Even then a portion may spatter upon the cow's bed, and if the cow adjusts herself for rest during the night she will prolwbly get more or less of the offensive matter on her. udder and teats, ■ Thi3 caiiot be prevented, and exists as a item fact, as all well'know that frequently the whole side the body, is sometimes covered with filth,

Tlit) cow also perspires, and though the perspiration.may be insensible, yet every poro of'her body is eliminating odours, matter being exuded that is really Injurious. There is no more direct channel downwards for this eliminated matter than that which leads to the udder and teats. True, a portion may evaporate, but there is, nevertheless, a proportion on those parts

A cow akw sheds her hair, or rubs off dome of it from her Bkin. In doing so she always loosens more or less dirt from her hide, which may be as easily dusted upon the udder as elsewhere, while the loosened hairs find a lodgemont also wherever they fall, Then there is the efllivn from the tongue when she licks herself, to fay nothing of the kicks and scratches received from the feet, which throw tilth in every direction. Will the dairyman remove this filth with the strainer? It is an impossibility for him to do so if he strained the milk a hundred times. The strainer may arrest the hairs, but the moist hand of tho milk, man will remove the dirt from the teats and lower part of the udder, which will dissolve, and they can'no more be strained than can the cream. The beginning of imgroyed dairying is at th» pail, plenty

■if water, clean hands, and iv dry towel, uid a goutl washing.of. the udder -uid twits is the first essential.—Farm and Field.