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Fifty Years of Progress in Dairy Farm Sanitation

The Diversey Corporation, Chicago, Illinois

ABSTRACT

By 1906 dairy farm sanitation regulatory activities had been inaugurated by a number of municipalities, particularly in the more heavily populated states. But the number of American communities with populations of 100,000 or less that had established full-time and adequately staffed public health departments, by that date, was relatively small. Consequently, a great many of the dairy farms supplying market milk were subject to no sanitation control whatsoever.

It is readily apparent that a description of 1906 dairy farm conditions, drawn 50 years later, cannot be strictly applicable to milksheds in which regulatory activities had been applied for any period, nor to all of the dairy farms in milksheds in which sanitation was wholly dependent upon the hygiene consciousness of individual milk producers. With that understanding, the state of dairy farm sanitation prevailing in most milksheds 50 years ago may be summarized as follows:

Except in older milksheds, conditions and practices had progressed beyond the stage of the family cow or small-herd operation only to the extent of the additional facilities necessary for producing and marketing the increased volume.