The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1875-10-04
agricultural department.
CONDUCTED BY ALBERT CHAPMAN.
Deep Setting.

very bad case of backsliding from the
faith in the deep setting of milk, fer
butter making purposes. 1t appears
that your correspondent was converted
to the faith in this practice, several
years ago. Indeed, he was so thorough
ly converted that, as he tells us, he be-
came an advocate of this doctrine, and
has prnctised 1t In his dairy to his en-
Ire satisfaction for the last three ear.
In fact, he was very happy In his
opinions and practice, until certain
patent right vender came along tina
way. This vender was "a very fail
man." had the best thing In the mar.
ket, and II will say" says your cores
pendent, "he stands ready ut any time
10 put his pan against any system, ana
especially deep setting, when he cal
have fail and impartial trial"
This operator having fully convinced
your correspondent of his entire homes
ty, and of his superintendent ability f.
settle this vexed question of deep set
ting beyond the possibility of doubt,
proceeds 10y the use of very silly
farce to reconvert your correspondent
and induce him to renounce his faith IN
deep setting and return to the shallow
Ideas of his youth. Unlike most back
sllders he has frankly given the pub
lie history of the affair, and detailed
the process by which he was led to
this charge in his opinions and prac-
tlce, and induced to buy a patent right.
Let us examine some of the steps of THU
process, and see how far they accord
with the dictates of reason and practi-
cal common sense.
He tells that when testing the effecl
of depth upon the rise of cream they
divided his milk into two equal parts
placing one half in the patent cooler,
and The other half in the pals used IN
his dairy, and which he calls "deel
pals" To make the trial "fair and
impartial" one, they then proceed to
reduce the temperature of the milk in
the vessel elected to succeed, TO 637
a temperature most favorable for SUI
cessful cream raising, and in the one
predestined to fail to 60e, a point nj
which ordinary cream is found to rist
very slowly and imperfectly.
Now a small amount of common
sense will teach any one, that If W.
would test the effect of depth upon the
cream raising. we should make ali
other conditions of temperature, etc..
the same. If we vary 10th the condi-
tions of depth and temperature, and gh
as wo should, different results, how am
| to know to which of the varying con-
ditions to attribute the difference? Il
might be attributable to temperature,
or depth, or to both combined.
This total ignoring of vital funda-
mental conditions on the part ofthis
vender, reminds me of the story of the
negro pres cher, who having stated that
Adam was created of clay and then sci
up against the fence to dry, refused t.
permit brother to ask him who made
the fence. because that question WOULD
upset his theology.
II those experimenters had condo
scended to recognize those natural law
and conditions which govern sucl
cares, the of the theory ia
which your correspondent was convert
ed would have been exposed. Hac
they reversed the conditions of temper
allure In the two vessels, they would
have reversed the results and thus one
opportunity at least for selling patent
right would have been lost. "Wher'
ignorance Is bliss" and pro6tabl,
too. "tis folly to be wise"
Supposing this vender had held VI
before your correspondent two vessels
precisely alike, and, with the verdanl
look becoming to one about to MAKE
such silly announcement, declared to
his astonished auditor, that one was
much better for cream raising purposes
than the other, would he have believ'
ed 1t ?" Why should he not Expert
ments like his would prove this
and if his credulity would admit Of
q belief in such experiments, why
would 1t not in their results ? If W.
take two vessels just alike, and fl
them with milk of precisely the same
quaiity, anu summit the unIIh III Un'
TO one degree of temperature, and thu
other to another, the variation In the
results obtained will be In proportion
to the variation in temperature ye
who would Willingly appear so ridlcu
lous as to claim that the differenc,
would be attributable to the vessel
used
He also tells US that the temperature
In the pals was brought to 60o. H,
does not tell us that 1t was held at tina
point. The inference Is that 1t was
and II so. will he tell us how he accom-
plished that feat In the hot and chang
able weather Of August ! have neve
before heard Of an experimenter VIII,
was not troubled to maintain perfect
ly uniform temperature, with even bet
ter facilities than your correspond den
possesses, and was not willing TO admit
variation of at least two or three de
grees, in fifty hours
Neither does he tell us at what poln
in the pals his tests were made, O
give US the temperature Of the roor
where the milk was set, that we ma
Judge of the variation between the SUI
face and bottom temperature. Observ
these experiments were made durin
the hot weather of August. If tn,
temperature of the room rose to So c
9Oe, which is very probable, the vars
tlon between the surface temperatur
and that at the bottom OF the pals,
the water was not agitated, must hav
been some &c or SO, and II the tesl
were made near the surface, rs "
may reasonably infer that they wer'
L. L. 49,