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MILK CHURNS.
Having in view the importance of ensuring that milk should be protected
from contamination while in transit from farms to the Metropolis, and the
fact that the churns at present in general use are so constructed as to defeat
the very purpose for which they should be intended, owing in a great measure
to a prevalent erroneous impression that it is essential that milk cans should
be ventilated, I suggested it would serve a useful purpose if it were made a
condition that the sum subscribed by the Corporation towards the prize fund
of the British Dairy Farmers' Association Show, held annually at Islington,
should be awarded as a premium to the exhibitor of the railway churn best
designed in accordance with the recommendation of the Board of Agriculture
and Fisheries.
These were contained in a circular letter dated the 27th February, 1907,
addressed to makers in Great Britain of churns for carriage of milk by rail.
These were as under :-
(1) The churn should have the tare weight stamped on the outside.
(2) The lid of the churn should be constructed so as to facilitate
sealing.
(3) The churn should be constructed so as to prevent, as far as
possible, the removal of milk from the churn while sealed.
(4) The churn should be constructed so as to prevent water being
added to the milk in the churn while sealed.
(5) The churn should be constructed so as to prevent dust or dirt from
being blown or washed into the churn when the lid is affixed.
This recommendation having received the approval of both the Sanitary and
the Coal and Corn and Finance Committee, and the Corporation having made
the Association a grant for the purpose, it was left with the Society to give
effect to the Corporation's wishes in the matter. This was willingly agreed to,
the Chairman of the City Lands Committee, Mr. George Briggs, being
appointed on the Jury as the representative of the Corporation.
The thirty-fourth Dairy Show of the British Dairy Farmers' Association
was held at the Royal Agricultural Hall, London, on October 5th, 6th, 7th
and 8th, 1909.