20—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, April IS, 1961 Expert Tells How To Control Milk Flavors Eliminate off-flavored milk by management, feeding and ventilation, says Ivan E. Parkin, professor of dairy science at the Pennsylvania State University. Spring is the time of year when dairymen tend to think of flavors in milk as those primarily caused by garlic in the pasture, but many other sources ot off-flavors produce objectionable properties in milk. Parkin, in a publication from Penn State says there are four ways to eliminate undesirable flavors in milk. In essence the four rules are, milk only healthy cows, properly ventilate the bam, feed after milking, and prac tice managed milking. Flavors caused by silages, pasturing or green reeding of grasses, legumes or grains can be eliminated by feeding after milking, proper bam ventilation and storing of such feeds away from cows. Such crops as cabbage, kale, rutabaga, turnips, beets and onions as wed as moldy or musty hay can likewise cause off flavor and should be kept from the feed of dairy cows. Of course one_ of the major causes of off-flavors when cows are on pasture in weeds such as garlic, mustard, rag weed, buckhorn, tansy, cab bage, skunk, bitterweed, fen nel and others. Such weeds should be eliminated from pastures, especially along fence rows. Covvy odors and flavors sometimes develop when the cows have ketosis or when the bam air becomes foul. If there is evidence of ketosis, all milk from the infected cow should be eliminated from the market supply. Bam ventilation systems are helpful in controlling foul odors in the dairy stable. If a salty flavor develops, it can usually be traced to a cow being milked late in her lactation or with an infected udder, all such milk should be eliminated from the mar ket supply. Unclean or sour, stale or putrid flavors develop as the result of bacterial contamin ation: and can be eliminated by practicing strict sanitation programs in. and around the Tanking and milk storing quarters. Proper cooling and storing of miik will also help control bacterial growth. Bitter flavors m milk can be caused by a number of factors. Certain weeds or certain feeds, foreign matter m the feeds . and certain kinds of bacterial action can cause bitterness. To eliminate bitter flavors keep foreign matter and weeds out of the diet of dairy cows, cool milk properly and practice sanita tion. Cows should not be milked too late in the lacta tion. Some cows tend to give flat and watery milk with low lactose and solid content and a high chloride content, such cows should be elimin ated from the herd. Agitation of the milk will sometime cause a rancid fla vor to develop Milking of strippers will sometimes pn duce a rancid flavor in milk also- Unfortunately some dairy men are not careful enough in the handling of chemica's around the, milk supply. Such farm chemicals as in secticide, sanitizing agents, weed sprays, medicines, dis infectants, and other odorous materials have no place in the milk supply If it be comes necessary to use such materials around tire dairy bam, extreme caution should bo taken to see that none of the material gets into the nulk supply If it becomes necessary to use such mater ials around the dairy barn, extreme caution should be taken to see that none of the material gets into the milk, and such chemicals should never be stored in the dairy barn or milk house. The dai ry bam should be well venti lated after the use of such odorous materials. A poster, showing flavors, causes and solutions, is av ailable from the office of the county agent. 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