Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1870-07-20
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We set the whey over against the
skim-milk for the swine, and put the
labor of putting into pans over against
the fact that churning is done on
Monday, and that men must other
wise work on Sunday in the factory.
A loss of 80 cents a week would count
up SAG so ~ayear-the possible loss to a
pious dairyman for keeping the Sab
bath.
But the milk can be kept over. Let
me quote alittle from a discussion had
at the Ohio Dairymen's Association,
held at Wellington last January.
"Mr. Carter, Lake County, had
adopted the plan of receiving milk at
his factories but once aday, the nights
milk being set in the can at the far
mer's house and cooled, the mornings
milk added and then delivered. lie
has had no trouble from floating curd
since he adopted this plan. He has
had no goodluck in making up nights
milk. The plans adopted among his
patrons to cool milk are various, some
using tubs, others setting the milk
can in q larger one, or q tub and STIR
ring the milk occasionally. He be-
lieved the mixture of the warm NOR
ning's milk improved the whole.
"Mr. A. Bartlett of Lake Co., had q
patron last summer who did notdeliv-
er his milk but once a day, and on
Monday mornings brought four milk
ings, and he had no trouble with that
milk.
"Mr. Baker of Michigan, had good
luck by his patrons cooling their milk
at home and delivering once a day
He had averaged during the past seas
on at his factory one pound of cheese
from every 97S-100 pounds of milk.
Mr.. l.. Bartlett of Geauga Co., said
that when milk is cooled at night, and
the fresh mornings milk put in, it has
a tendency to improve the whole and
is a profitable plan.
"Mr. A. Bartlett said that in Indi-
ana, where the plan of delivering once
a day had been adopted, it has proven
a perfect success. He approved of 1t,
as it saved night work for both man
and beast, and hands can be employ
ed cheaper.
"Mr. johnson, of Ashtabula Co.,
said he approved of the plan. of cool
ing and delivery once a day. The
plan adopted among his people is to
insert a tube six inches in diameter in
the can filled with cold water, or to
set the can in a large bucket. His
yield from milk treated in this way
has been one pound of cheese from
8 1-6 pounds of milk.
mi. H. NJ. Viets of Lorain, read
an essay on the orders of milk deliv-
cred once a day, which was in perfect
accordance with the views of Mr..
Carter, Hart, Bartlett and others.
1.-THE question was asked, will not
milk that has been cooled by ice or
water to a lower temperature than the
atmosphere, sour by rising in degree
of heat.
"Mr. Viets that if cooled as soon as
it came from the cow, it would stand
greater heat without souring than
under any other treatment, let it be
cooled to as low a temperature as il
may.
1.-THE following resolutions were
adopted:
"ResoLUed, That milk should not be
run up but once a day, when the nights
milk can be kept in good condition.
"ReSoIced, That, in the opinion of this
convention, milk in all cases should be
cooled at home by the farmers as soon as
drawn from the cows, and left to their
option to deliver once or twice a day."
So, after all, the matter of loss is a
question. Now for the fair play that l
want. While one mana good Chris
tan man-has a lot of COWS that give
milk on Sunday, here is another good
Christian man who has a saw-mill
that runs by water-power. Sometimes
in summer the water runs low, and
he can't work. Patrons are pressing
on his attention their logs;-they want
their lumber.
All at once comes a freshet, and
there is a good head of water. But it
happens to be Sunday! Yet God sent
the head of water-sent it on Sunday
To let it 90 is a dead loss to work all
day Sunday would be a nice little sum
in the good mans pocket.
But if my Christian friend who
owns the saw-mill should regale your
ears with the chug, chug, chug, ofhis
mill, as you were going to church,
(after you had sent off your milk to
the factory, and three men were
working quietly away to make it up;)
you would be the first one to get up
in church meeting and ask for a COM
mittee to go and labor with the saw
m~il-brOther for breaking his cove
nant vows.
Suppose Fisk, Silliman & Co. should
run their hoppers all day every Sun
day when there was a head of water
in the creek ? How long would it be
before there would be-a fuss in town?
Now here comes the fair play. Why
is it worse on the edge of one hill than
on the edge of another across the
creek? Why are trundling milk
wagons any more innocent than
trundling grain-wagons, or lumber