NEW DAIRY REGULATIONS.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2296, 15 September 1908, Page 1

NEW DAIRY REGULATIONS.

PROPOSALS ISSUED

SWEEPING PROVISIONS

INTERESTING NEW FEATURES

(Special to “Times.”)

WELLINGTON, Sept, J2. The long expected and much revised dairy regulations wore presented to Parliament on Friday night, bid woro not available for ’like press until Into to-night. They contain some sweeping provisions and are much more comprehensive than the old regulations. A summary of the main proposals is here given :

INTERPRETATION

For the purposo of the regulations: —“Dairy” means .and includes tiny farm, stockyard, milking-yard, paddock, shed,..{>table, stall, or any other place where cows from which thy milk-supply of a. dairy is obtained arc depastured, kept, or milked, and includes any place where milk or cream is collected, deposited, treated, separated, prepared, or manufactured into butter or cheese on Dio form; but does not include (a) any milkshop, or any factory, skiuimuig-sta-fion, or other premises used for the manufacture, milling, blending, 'tinning, or packing of butter or cheese, or tho manufacture of condensed, preserved, or dried milk; nor (b) any farm where tho whole of the milk produced, whether used as! milk or ercmii, or manufactured on the. promisee into butter or cheese, is con--1 sumed by persons resident or employ'ed thereon. DISEASES. “Infectious or contagious disease” moans typhus fever, ontoric fever, scarlet fever, bubonic plaguo, smallpox, diphtheria, tuberculosis, rodent ulcer, malignant diseases, venerea! diseases, and any other disease that the Governor by Ordor-in-Coniicil gazetted declares to be an infectious or contagious disease within the meaning of the Act. REGISTRATION FEE. Tho registration fee, formerly 55., is now Is. per annum for a dairy of not more than two cows in milk; os for not more tliun 10, and 10s. for over ton cows. SHEDS AND FLOORS. . Sheds must bo suited for milking pu r posesAir space in shed, GOO cubic feot per cow. Floor “of an even surface, and formed of concrete or other material impervious to water.” A suitable gutter, connected with outlet drain. Insides of walls and roof swept at leash monthly, but not within two hours before a milking. Insides of walls .and woodwork whitewashed, and rerouted in July and January every year—oftoner if instructed by inspector, and first scraped, if required. SOURCES OF CONTAMINATION. Alanure, etc., removed 30ft. away within two hours after milking, and iloor cleansed. No milkliouse, otc., to be within 30ft. (or 60ft if to leeward in respect of prevailing wind) of “cowshed, stablo, stockyard, milking-yard, fowlhouse, fowkun, calfpen, calf-feeding trough, manure heap, cesspool, closet, urinal, liquid manure tank, or any other building tho contents of which would be likely to contaminate dairy produce, or within 50yds. of any piggery.” . .

No cowshed or building where cows are kept, or milking yard on- stock yard used in connection with the milking of cows, shall be within 30ft of stable, fowlhouse and run, calfpen and trough, manure heap, etc., or 50yds. of ai piggery. No open water supply to be within 50yds of a piggery. No cowshed is to lie within 30ft of any dwelling; •and in a city or borough of 5000 persons or over, no cowshed to bo within 100 ft of any dwellinghousc, or any boundary. THE CONCRETE RACE.. Sheds used for more than six cows, but uii'ililo to stall them all at onco, must have either an adequate yard attached, or with concrete or paved tloor, or an. adequate yard 30ft distant connected by a race concreted or paved. Clauses provide for 'tilio ventilation and drainage of cowsheds, milk houses, etc.; adequate water supply, contamination of water supplies; proper repair of, and fourteen days’ notification of proposed 'alterations to, buildings, etc. CLEAN MEN, CLEAN COWS, CLEAN MILK. Persons handling milk must bo clean in person and clothes. Milkers must wash hands before milking or handling milk, and after every cow.

No milk to bo drawn from an unwashed uddor and. teats. * STRAINED AND COOLED.

Strain all an ilk through approved strainer.

If not immediately separated, milk must bo cooled by method 1 approved by inspector'. If milk immediately separated, cream must be cooled forthwith. THE WASHING OF UTENSILS, ETC. Buckets and other utensils . must be rinsed with cold water, washed with warm water, scrubbed, scalded by steam or water, land drained fully exposed to the air; the washing of buckets to be begun within an hour after milking, and finished within an hour later,'anil times of cleansing other utensils provided for. Milk cans used for skim milk or whey must bo emptied und cleansed immediately on return. No _u tonsils to he used in which the joints are not soldered, or which contain mat. Inspectors may brand with broad arrows any utensils they condemn. Every can must bear the owner’s name. Every cart and other milk conveyance must bear owner’s name in 2inch letters. Separators and milking machines must bo washed, cleansed, and scalded immediately after every use. INFECTIOUS DISEASE. Eve.ry dairyman must notify the inspector immediately of the outbreak of any of the infectious diseases above stated oil or about his promises in human beings or his cattle. Employment of persons suffering from, or' coming into contact with, infectious disease is forbidden. To sell, give away, feed to stock, or allow to be used for human consumption milk from any animal diseased or unhealthy, or from an animal within four clear days after calving is prohibited. Sleeping of human beings in cowsheds, mil'k-house, etc., is forbidden ; and fowls, pigeons, or other animals than cows and calves are not to bo admitted. Milk conveyance must not be used.

lor' carriage of live or dead animals, or manure, or pigs’ food, or other material likely to contaminate.

APPEALS.

Appeals to the chief inspector of stock may lie made in l'ogird te inspectors’ orders concerning the whitewashing clause and the cooling • appliances ; and an ollicor will 'thou be sent to_ investigate and give a binding decision. THE PENALTY.

Tho penalty for a breach of a- regulation is fivo pounds. The regulations will go before the Stock Committee, and evidence will bo taken upon them.