Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1876-09-06

its Wanted and prophesied achievements
must fade and perish, like flower cut of
from its root.
Deep Setting.
The question of the comparative adyan-
tages Of the deep and shallow systems Of
setting milk for cream, has been discussed
before the public for some time, and though
many successful dairymen have permanently
adopted deep setting in some form, that
method cannot be said to have become POI
ular. There is not, in all probability, an
average Of one dairyman to town, in New
England, who is a deep setter.
Yet it does not follow from this that deep
setting is not the superior method, either as
regards economy, convenience, or the amount
and quality of butter produced The transit
ton from setting milk in common pans TO
pals, or deep cans, is so great that it is not
likely at first TO commend itself to the
judgment. One can hardly help thinking
that it would be difficult TO get all the cream
up through mass Of milk from ten TO
twenty inches in depth. And experience
shows that, unless we have perfect control
of the temperature, the presumption accords
with the fact Deep setting is a failure, I'M
less the milk can be quickly brought down
to and steadily maintained at a temperature
not higher than sixty degrees. This can
only be effected 10y the use of tanks or refrig-
orators, with cool running water or ice, in suf-
ficient abundance TO control perfectly the
condition of temperature indicated, so that
the milk will not begin to thicken in the
warmest weather in less than twenty-four
hours.
Shallow setting in large pans has so many
and manifest advantages over the old way
with small pans, that every one is pleased
and contented with it, and not disposed to
90 farther, with the chance of faring worse.
All the patentees and agents Of the large
pan system decry with united voices the
deep method, while no one has any pecuni-
airy interest in pushing a plan that 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 spend breath in urging it upon 9th
ers, against the outcries OF interested parties
who are able to make it very unpleasant to
those who, even with the best motives are in
the way of their plans for making money
SO, the deep system not being pushed, anC
the large pan, shallow system, being urgeC
on every hand, the latter has been generally
adopted.
But there is one circumstance that nigh
well attract attention-all the deep setter
who have once got the hang Of that metho'
stick to it, The creameries all use it, an'
men like Douglas Waring aud Hardin hav
now practiced it for years with perfect sat
isfaction to themselves and their dairy Gus
toners Still farther, some of the yer,
warmest opponents Of deep setting have be
come convinced by their own experiments
instituted to demonstrate the superiority O
shallow setting, that deep setting gives tn
best results.
|
vana, after several trials, which seemed t
demonstrate the superiority of shallow Sc
ting has at last concluded, upon furth'
trial, that deep setting is decidedly the mo-
successful and profitable. He now says,
; deep settlers have always allowed, that viii
either shallow or deep setting, under pc
j fectly satisfactory conditions for both, gi'
equally perfect results and develop all Il
butter the milk contains, the necessary co
diiOnS for such result are most sure
> secured, and with the least labor and e
pense, by the deep method.
e Now, while it might not pay any one wi
II is fitted up with the large pans 10 change
IS deep setting, would it not be well for tho
$ who have not yet given up the small pans
u investigate the unpatented and cheaply {
s. ranged deep methods-that of Douglas al
o Waring, with tanks, or that of Hardin, wi
o a refrigerator before deciding upon the 81
Is ject of change? They will be drumm
l. by patentees and their agents TO take I
Is large pans, and men who, for some outsi
e reason, are personally unfriendly to Doug
20 or Waring, may decry their methods in
'e way which they decline to reply toi but st
II interest ought to lead every man not only
n seek for a good way, but for the rery b
most Convenient and cheapest ,oay Of fitting
his dairy, when he has decided to g
50 up the small pans. Mr.. Douglas method
y carefully described in the two volumes
Is the Vermont Reports, while Warnings a
III lIardin's notifications are detailed in
e. american 1gricmitrisi The former can
'e' found in somebody's hands in every town
re the state, and the numbers of the latter c
IL tanning the desired information can be
for a small sum of the publishers of
ue 1griculWia, in New York.