Sanitation practically applied by Wood Harold Bacon 1878-1958

Author:Wood, Harold Bacon, 1878-1958
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Sanitation, Public health
Publisher: New York, Wiley
Published: 1917-03-25T05:00:00+00:00

There are two practical methods either of which can accomplish much in improving the milk supply. These methods relate to an enforcement of the law through the courts or, the better plan, to give the dairymen the advantage of first receiving instruction in hygiene. The dair3mien may be taught by sending pamphlets through the mail, or the better plan, by personal talks. The dairymen, in small towns, may be collected at a meeting, or the better method is to visit each dairy farm and to explain to the owner the needs and their advantages. If dairymen are collected for an appointed meeting the talks may be generalizations or may specifically detail the needs of each farm. The latter are best judged by personal inspections, but much can be learned from laboratory examinations of milk samples.

The talks may be given with these tests as a bcisis. In giving any detailed talks the speaker should make each dairyman realize the exact conditions he maintains and the particular improvements he needs, but care must be taken not to let the competing dairymen know each other's faults. The speaker, after having made the preliminary inspections and examinations, can state that in a certain red barn where the separator stands between the rows of cows (or some similar description unmistakable to the owner), that here the flies swarm upon the dirty separator, hence the cream gives a bacterial count in the millions. Such references are convincing, and when the dairyman is told how to remedy his gross defects he realizes he is being watched and he learns the necessity of repair. The dairyman then learns the duties of the inspector, and the public soon appreciates the value of correct dairy inspection.

Dairy inspectors should supervise the entire course of the milk from the cow to the consumer, searching for unsanitary features occurring during the production and handling of the milk and making such practical suggestions as will eventually yield a purer, cleaner milk.

Inspections should be made with the view of obtaining

practical improvements. No person should attempt to inspect unless he is able to make such suggestions as the dairyman will follow. Practical suggestions should supplement criticism, and no dairyman should be asked to adopt those improvements which are clearly beyond his ability or intelligence to install and maintain. Suggestions offered should be simple and helpful, and their adoption be well within the financial and intellectual power of the dairyman. Such suggestions for the ordinary small dairy farm would include washing of the utensils and bottles, and a wetting of the udders and flanks of the cows before milking, as the most important improvements for the purely primitive dairy, and would lead up to keeping chickens and cats out of the dairy, a removal of all manure and a cleaning of the barn to prevent fly-breeding. The dairymen who are better able to buy needed utensils should be urged to use covered pails. Other improvements, up to installing autoclaves and brine milk coolers, arc installed according to the wealth of the dairyman.

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