The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1876-09-16
AGRICULTURAL department.
CONDUCTED BY ALBERT CHAPMAN.
Deep Setting.


The question of the comparative ad
vsntages of the deep and shallow sys
TENS of setting milk for cream has beer
discussed before the public for som
time, and though many successfu
dnrymen have permanently adopte
deep setting ia some form. that methc,
Garnet I've said to have become popular
There is no, in all probability, an av
eroge of one dairymau to u town, Il
New England, Who is a deep setter,
Yet it does not follow from this tina
deep setting Is not the superior metbo
either rs regards economy, conven
lence, or the amount and quality Q
butter produced The transition from
setting milk In common ans to pals
or deep cans. Is 30 great that II Is no
likely at frat 10 commend itself t
the judgment. One can hardly he'll
thinking that IL would he difficult L
get all the cream ~ through mass o
milk from ten 10 twenty Inches il
depth. ArdeXperience shows that, un
iess we have perfect control of the tenn
perature, the presumption sccords will
the fact. Deep setting is a failure, un
less the milk can DO quickly biough
down to aud steadily maintained at
temperature not higher than sixty de
grees. This can only be effected b.,
the use Of tai ks or refrigerators, witt
cool running water or ice, in suificien
abundance to control perfectly the con
dition of temperature indicated, so tina
the milk will not begin to thicken il
the warmest weather In less thai
twenty-four hours.
Shallow setting in large pans has SC
many and manifest advantages ovei
the old way with small pans, that ev-
cry one Is pleased and contented with
It, and not disposed to go farther, with
the chance of faring worse. All the
patentees and agents Of the large pan
system decry with united voices the
deep merhod, while no one has any pc
cuniary interest in pushing plan thai
has no patent or patentable features ;
and the deep settlers are apt to say
why should ! care / have got way
that suits me. and why need l speno
breath in urging it upon Others, against
the outtries of interested parties wh,
are able to make 1t very unpleasant /,
those who. even with the best motives
are in the way OF their plans for max
Ing money"
SO the deep system not being pushed
and the large pan, shallow system, be
Ing urged on every hand the latter hs.
been generally adopted
But there Is one circumstance TIM
might we'll attract attention all th,
deep settlers VINO have once got the haul
of that method stick to ii. The cream
ers all use it, and men like Douglas
Waring and Hardin have now prac
ticed 1t for years with perfect satisfac
ton to themselves and their dairy Gus
toners. Still farther some of the yer,
warm"rt opponents of deep settinl
have h"crme convinced by their ow'
experiments, instituted TO dpmonstraf
the superiority Of shallow setting, tha
deep set'ing gives the best results.
Thus Mr.. Eastburn Ruder, Of Penn
sylvania, after several trials, whicl
seemed to demonstrate the superiorit,
of shallow setting has at last conclude
upon further trial, that deep setting i,
decidedly the most successful and prof
liable. He now says, as deep setter,
have always allowed, that while either
shallow or deep setting, under perfect,
ly satisfactory conditions for both, Civ,
equally perfect results and develope al
the butter the milk contains, the neces
sary conditions for such result ar,
most surely secured, and with the leas
labor and expense,by the deep method
Now, while it might not pay any on,
who Is fitted up with the large pans t.
change to deep setting, would 1t not b,
we'll for those who have not yet give,
up the small pans to investigate the un
patented and cheaply arranged deel
methods-that of Douglas and Waring
with tanks, or that of Hardin, with
Observation-Disclosures deciding upon tn,
subject of change? They will b,
drummed by patentees and their agents
to take the large pans, and men who
FOR some outside reason, are PERSONAL,
unfrlendly to Douglas or Warning, may
decry their methods in way whic
they decline to reply to but self inter
est ought to lead every man not only t,
seek for good way, but for the yer,
best, most convenient and cheapest way
OF fitting mp his dairy when he has de-
cided to give up the small pans. MI.
Douglas method IL carefully de
scrihed In the two volumes of the Yer
mont report. While Warnings alt
iiordin's notifications are detailed il
'hs American Agricultural. The for
ner can he found IN somebody's hand,
In every town IN The state, and IT,,
numbers OF Tic latter containing IN
desired Information can he had for
small rum OF the publishers of the Az
riculturlst, In New York.-[Dr. Hos.
kins.