Infant feeding : the feeding and care of infants ; the selection and home modification of cow's milk / circular issued by the Illinois State Board of Health.

  • Illinois State Board of Health
Date:
1905
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Credit: Infant feeding : the feeding and care of infants ; the selection and home modification of cow's milk / circular issued by the Illinois State Board of Health. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University.

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    SUGGESTIONS TO DAIRYMEN AND MILK DEALERS. The production of a good, clean milk is not the complicated business it has often been regarded. It requires only reasonable knowledge, reasonable in- telligence and reasonable care. The following suggestions, if observed, will do much toward securing a good, clean milk. Whenever it is practicable to do so, milk buyers should see that their dairymen live up to the standards at least this high: Don't buy Jerseys, Alderneys or other fine grade cows. If you have Jerseys and Alderneys, cross breed them with common hardy stock like Durhams and Holsteins. Common breeds do not give as rich milk, but it is more di- gestible. Common grade cattle are hardier and are not subject to disease as much as are the finer grades. Have your cows tuberculin tested to show that they are not afflicted with tuberculosis. Consumption may be acquired from the milk of cows so dis- eased. Feed your cows clean, dry food. Slops and brewers' grains are unfit food for milk cows. Cabbage and other strong tasting foods give a strong taste to the milk. Do not turn your cows into fresh pastures too suddenly in the spring. Barn-fed cows, turned at once into unripe grass, give milk which often causes diarrhoea and serious illness. Keep the weeds out of your pastures. Weeds eaten by cows often make the milk strong and unfit for use. Fill up the mud holes and muddy ponds in your pastures. Wallowing in mud holes makes the cow filthy. Drinking water from muddy ponds is un- wholesome for dairy cows. No building should be used for dairy cows which is not well lighted, ven- tilated and drained. Stable floors should be solid and easily cleaned. They should be so slanted as to give good drainage. Stable drains should be connected with public sewers, if possible. Every stable should be provided with covered water-tight receptacles for dung and other refuse. Refuse should not be allowed to accumulate on the stable floor or in the barnyard. No water closet, privy, urinal, cess pool, inhabitated room or work shop should be permitted to remain in a dairy stable. Chickens, hogs, horses, sheep and goats should be excluded from the cow barns. Five hundred cubic feet of air space should be allowed for each cow in the barn. No stall should be less that four feet wide. Cow stables should be kept clean and should be whitewashed frequently. Dung and refuse should be removed from cow barns every day. In the best dairies the stables are cleaned twice daily.
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