The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1877-12-13
NEosHo, Wis, 1877.
From the Western Rural.

From the Western Rural.
Cream from Milk or Milk from Cream.
This question was asked not long
since in Land and Water:-"Do our
readers who are interested practically
in dairy matters take the cream from
the milk, OF the milk fromthe cream ?"
Mr.. c.. C. Buell., of Rock Falls, Ill,
takes up the question and discusses it
in this sensible way:
1T seems at first sight that it would
come much to the same thing in the
end whichever method was adopted
but / can assure your readers, that the
latter process is very much the most
advantageous PLAN both in respect to
quickness in the operation and also in
the greater quantity of cream obtain
ed from the milk. / have seen sever
al articles in different dairy journals
of drift similar ito the above, and
judging from advertisements that !
have seen dairy utensils for setting
milk for cream are actually being fois-
ted upon the public which provide fol
drawing the,8 milk from under the
cream. leaving the cream in the bot.
tom of the vessel. Now it would seem
as if a parlor or office ,dairyman could
see the insuperable objections to this
method of handling nnilk; not because
it is not labor saving. but because it is
filthy, yes, absolutely filthy, to the ex-
tent that if there is any filth whatever
in the milk by this method it is al
sure to go into the batter. A neat
dairyman is supposed to strain the
milk of his herd. What for? Way
to separate from it that Eihich would
otherwise injure the butter. He strains
not once only but twice at least and
the Last time usually through a good
cloth strainer, and double at that.
Hairs are very liable to be in the
milk, at some seasons sure to be, even
with the most careful milking. Cows
do not lie on clean rugs, not always on
washed and busted floors. They are
said sometimes to repose on the vel
vety turf, but even in this case more
or less clay, sand, gravel, to name moth
ing less clean, is liable to lie around
loose, and they do sometimes travel
dusty or muddy roads even if they do
hot wade muddy sloughs. In any OF
all OF these cases, more or less dirt
will be transferred to the milk pail,
and the traces of it will be found in
the bottom of milk pan. The amount
will be in inverse ratio to the clean
illness of the former work. ANY one
knows this who has emptied the sour
milk, and no such one will reco mmend
the practice named at the beginning
Of this article. These and other OBJ
jections, such as the cream adhering
to the large surface Of the vessel and
the consequent waste. But the lead
ing objection is that more of the fer
tile elements Of the field barnyard and
stable is retained in the butter.
"Let me describe to your readers a
method Of using cloth which I have
not seen elsewhere, and which has
proved very satisfactory to me. Take
tin strainer with faring top and up
right rim at bottom, but emitting the
wire strainer and the bottom piece, in
to which it is inserted. Let the top
part be less fiaring and the bottom
part larger in proportion than in the
ordinary tin strainer. Have rim or
ring of tin one and a half or two
inches wide, constructed SO as just to
fit into the top of the strainer. Now,
place over the top of the strainer
frame, your cloth, having it little
baggy, press the rim into it's place,
so as to hold the cloth secure, and go
ahead. With this strainer no acct
dents are likely to occur.
An American horticulturist was en-
gagged by the Japanese government a
wear AGO to establish a Dermannnt mod