CO129-473 - Individuals - 1921 — Page 339

INTERIOR OF POKFULUM DAIRY

COWBOYS.

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under the most sanitary conditions. An up-to-date sterilizing plant is also installed by which milk can be either pasteurised or sterilized-truly a great boon where milk is required for children or invalids, or for a long sea voyage. Sour milk, famous for its remedial qualities in all complaints of the digestive organs, is also produced. A well-equipped butter room deals with all surplus cream. After being carefully graded and pasteurised it is made into butter of either first or second grade.

Notwithstanding the special difficulties incidental to the climate of Hong Kong, so far as cheesemaking is concerned, this branch of dairying also is carried on. Both Coulommier and French Cheese, on the lines of Port du Salut, are produced, although the temperatures required for curing have to be regulated by artificial means. Clotted or Devonshire Cream, Cottage Cheese, and all other dairy delicacies are produced as occasion demands. In the laboratory or test room, samples of milk, cream, etc., are subjected to the severest tests, not only for butter fat but also for purity, and discovery of objectionable micro-organisms. Here a check is kept which enables the Company to guard against adulteration and secure the cleanliness of the whole of the large milk supply from the cow-shed to the customer.

DAIRY REGULATIONS.

The following are the dairy regulations:

All dairymen and milk distributors must wash their hands upon entering the Dairy premises and before proceeding to their various duties; washstands, water, soap and towels are provided for that purpose.

All employed upon the Dairy premises must be clean in dress and person

at all times, clean white suits being provided for them by the Company.

All milking utensils to be rinsed in clean water, then :-

1.

Washed in hot soda-water.

2.

Washed in clean hot water,

3. Placed in steam chamber to be sterilized for half an hour.

All bottles on being returned by the milk distributors are to be subjected

to the following routine:--

1. Rinsed in clean luke-warm water

2.

Washed in hot soda-water with revolving machine brush 3. Washed in lime-water

4.

Washed in clean water

5. Placed in steam chamber for half-an-hour at a temperature

of 190 degrees.

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