Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1878-08-07
HI.-DEEP PALS.


The deep pail, or Orange county method,
obviated or lessened some of the faults of
the large pans, but never has been very pop
ular, partly because it was supposed 10 be
more difficult and troublesome, partly be-
cause it was not generally believed that all
the cream could be got up through so great
depth of milk, but chiefly because there
was no patent on it, and therefore no agents
TO proclaim its merits and drum it into use.
Those who with patience and care made use
of it were satisfied with the results, as being
superior to those obtainable from small or
large pans. Unfortunately, the prevailing
belief that sixty degrees was the proper
temperature of milk for cream-raising, pre-
vented the realization of the full advantages
| that might have been gained by this method
| in getting up the cream rapidly and saving
| the skim milk for manufacture or sale in a
sweet state Another prejudice in relation
to the so-called "animal odor," and the
necessity OF exposing milk to the air in
| order to get rid of it, prevented the use of
covers TO the pals, by means of which i'll
odors and impurities might be guarded
against and the temperature more com.
pletely controlled.
| UNCOVERED CANS AND Low TEMPERATURE.
The last advance, and the greatest single
step ever made i'll dairying, has been the dis
covery Of the rapid separation of cream from
milk under the influence of low temperature.
This discovery has been embodied in num-
Der of inventions, some patented and some
not, all of which have for their object the
speedy reduction of the temperature of the
milk to about forty degrees, and the main
tenance of that temperature until the sepa-
ration of the cream under the influence of
the law of gravitation, undisturbed by other
causes, is complete. This, it has been shown,
can be perfectly accomplished in from six To
twelve hours, leaving the remaining milk in
perfectly sweet aud wholesome condition
for human food, either in its simple state oil
manufactured into cheese. The great dis
covery has been rapidly followed by a wide
extension of the manufacture of high grade
butter, which, under the name of "Creamery
, Butter" has already taken the lead in al
markets on account of its good quality anC
remarkable uniformity. In fact it has re
) volutionized butter making, rendering i
D possible TO produce fine and uniform
4 article over a vastly larger territory thar
has ever before been thought possible. |
. we add 10 this the introduction and rapiC
spread of improved breed of dairy COWS
a (and especially of the Jerseys as par ercel
:" ience the butter cow, we shall see tina
!. hereafter no monopoly of the butter marke
can be held by any section of the country
u and that now the dairymen of the so-calle'
n "dairy-belt must be content to enter int
& competition with other regions on basi
q of the practical uniformity of conditions, S
that the contest is reduced mainly TO one O
skill, industry and economy. The railroa
e system makes nearness of markets of littl
t. consequence; the multiplicity of feedn
Ia material from which good butter can
~ made resolves the superiority of mountai
y" pastures into myth the name of Orang
10 county" or Vermont" can no more be use
'e to conjure with. We must make up on
At minds to enter hatfoo.ed into competitio
Il with whole continent, and hold our ow
y against IT by the high quality and uniformit
IS OF our goods alone, or retire and confess GU
selves beaten.