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treatment and storage of milk, and such articles as cleansing
materials, brass polish, soda and soap, paraffin, oil cans, tools,
etc., as well as the out-door clothes of the farm hands, must
not be kept there. Fortunately, these extraneous articles
are now rarely found there by the Inspector.
The farm manure heap also has consideration. It has
usually been placed, as a matter of convenience, near the
cowshed, and the manure has been allowed to mature for a
long period. In consequence, during the warm weather,
flies breed there in great numbers and may infect the milk.
Every effort is made, therefore, to secure frequent removals
of the manure to a more distant place, and the use of the
farmyard manure heap, instead of the field manure heap, is
being discouraged.
As a result of the recent improvements that have taken
place at the farms, special designated milks could be produced
there, and it may be that ere another report is published, more
than one producer will have taken the necessary steps to secure
the appropriate licence.
Dairymen and Purveyors of Milk. Most of the Woolwich
milk comes from the country districts of Dorset and Wiltshire.
It is carried in churns in open and covered railway vans and
arrives at the stations in the early hours of the morning.
The churns are not sealed. Most of them are taken direct to
local dairies, but a few are received by itinerant vendors and
taken straight on to their rounds. The milk taken to the
dairies is usually treated either by pasteurisation or cooling,
and is then ready for distribution, either from churns or from
bottles. The distribution of milk in bottles has considerably
increased of late, and a demand for, and confidence in bottled
milk has been developed by the public. The use of bottles
for delivery presents many advantages provided proper