Cheraw gazette and Pee Dee farmer. [volume] (Cheraw S.C.) 1838-1839, 1839-05-17

In the management OF dairy, the follow.
ing peculiari,es respecting milk ought to be
very particularly advered 10: some OF them
are, no doubt, known in part TO attentive
housewives, but they lever yet, | have rea-
son to believe, have been adv to as
their importance deserves and by many
have never been thought of at all. | put
them down in the form of aphorisms, that
they may be more adverted to, and the
easier retained.
Aphorism I.
Of the milk that is drawn from any COW at
one time, that which comes off at The first
is always thinner, and of much worse
! oualar-4Gsa that which comes afier-
wards, and the richness goes on coatInu-
| ally increasing 10 the very last drop
that can be drawn from the udder at that
time.
Few persons are ignorant that milk
which is taken from the cow last Of all al
milking. which in this country is called stro'
kings, is richer than the rest Of the milk;
but fewer still are aware Of the greatness OF
the disproporiion between the quality Of the
first and the last drawn milk from the same
COW at one milking. The following facts
respecting this circumstance were ascer.
tanned by me many years ago, and have
been confirmed by many subsequent expe.
riment and observations.
Have taken several large cups, exact.
ly Of the same size and shape, one of these
tea-cups was filled at the beginning of the
COW milking, and the others at regular in
tervals till the last, which was filled with the
dregs of the strokings. These were each
weighed, the weight Of each cup being set.
tied so as 10 ascertain that the quantity OF
milk in each was precisely the same; and
from great number Of experiments, fire.
quentIy repeated, with many different COWS,
the result was in all cases thus:
l. The quantity Of cream obtained from
the first cup was, in every case, much small.
er than from that which was last drawn
and those between afforded less or more, as
they were nearer the beginning or the end.
1t is unnecessary here to specify these in.
termediate proportions; but it is proper
that The reader should be informed that the
quantity Of cream obtained from the last
drawn cup. from some cows, exceeded that
from the first in the proportion Of s'rteen to
one. In other COWS, however, and in par.
ticular circumstances, the disproportion
was not quite so great; but in no case did
find it fall short Of the rate Of eight TO one.
Probably, upon an average Of great many
cows, it might be found TO run at ten or
tUsLre TO one.
8. The difference in the quality Of the
cream. however, obtained from these two
cups, was much greater than the difference
in The quantity. In the first cup the cream
was thin tough film, thinner, and perhaps
whier, than the paper on which / write !;
ia the last, the cream was of thick buty
rous consistence, and Of glowing richness
Of color, that no other kind of cream is ey. r
found to possess.
3. The difference in the quality of the
milk that remained after the cream was Sc
parated. was perhaps still greater than elth.
er in respcc, 10 the quantity or the quality
of the cream. The milk in the first cup
was a thin blush liquid, like as if
very large proportion Of water had been
mixed with ordinary milk that in the last
cup was of thick consistence and yellow
color, more resembling cream than milk,
both in taste and appearance.
From this important experiment it ap-
pears, that the person who, by bad milking
of his COWS, loses but half a pint OF his milk,
loses, in fact. about as much cream as
would be afforded by six or eigh: pints at the
beginning, and loses besides, that part OF
the cream which alone can give richness
and nigh favor to his butter. Many other
useful corrolaries may be drawn from ii,
which do no. at present stop 10 enume.
rate. Some of them will occur in the Sc.
quel.
Aphorism II.
! IF milk be put in dish and allowed to
stand iiIl it throws mp cream, that porlIo'
ofcream which rises first 10 the surface
is richer in quality, and greater in guam
thy, than what rises in second equai
portion ofiilne and the cream that rises
in the second interval of time is greater
in quantity and richer in quality than that
which rises in third equal space OF
Of lime; and that Of the third than The
fourth, and so on, the cream that rises
decreases in quantity, and declines IN
quality continually as long as any rises
the surface.
My experiments not having been in this
case made with so much accuracy as in the
former, have not been enabled to asce'-
tain the difference in the proportion that
tak"s place in equal proportions of time;
but they have been so often repeated as not
to leave any room to doubt the fact and
it will be allowed 10 be fact of no small