20—Lancaster Fuming, Saturday, January 27,1979
Dairy problems haven't changed
By SUSAN KAUFFMAN
Staff Correspondent
43 years in the dairy in
dustry, Dr. Earl W. Cook,
president of Quality Control,
Inc., told members and
guests of Inter-State District
11 that dairymen and
processors are still com
bating the same problems
Cook told the group whicn
is composed of the
Cochranville and Oxford
Locals that advancements in
Horace Prange, left, director of District 11 for Inter-State Milk
Producers Cooperative, presents a plaque to Mr. and Mrs. Joel Brown of Oxford.
The Browns milk 100 Holsteins.
Oldest
cow
dies
ASHLAND, Wis. The
nation’s oldest cow, aged 39,
died here Jan. 16 at the farm
of Emma and Gust
Dablstrom. She had
produced some 325,000
pounds of milk and 30 off
spring during her lifetime.
Her longevity attracted 200
tourists from 10 states last
year. The cow, named Star,
was also the subject of
various magazine articles,
and she had made several
appearances on television.
According to her owner,
Star’s 39 years are
equivalent to 234 human
years.
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technology have not
conquered the bacteria
which affect the quality of
milk nor have handling
procedures kept
adulterations from being at
a minimum.
- After
Looking back over the last
40 years when his career in
the industry began as a
veterinarian and lab
director in Pittsburgh in
1936, he recalled the sim
plistic inspections that oc
curred then. “We looked for
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clean dairy equipment which
consisted of strainers,
seemless milking pails for
hand milking, stirring rods
which were used to agitate
the milk in the 20 to 40 quart
capacity milk cans, the milk
strainer and the milk stool.
Milk was cooled in well
water coolers to a tem
perature of 52 degrees as a
rule and taken to a dumping
station every morning.
Citing a number of
characteristics of milking
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and handling milk forty
, years ago Cook posed the
question, “Have we come a
long distance since then?”
Answering his question be
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standards are higher now
but the bacteria is the
same.” He went on to outline
the three types of bacteria
which affect the quality of
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