Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1883-05-31

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issue an article signed Geo. Spalatlin, 7
IN relation TO the amount of cream nec-
essaiy to make pound of butter, as
taken from the different sized cans now
IN use. The article was not dated,
hence we are in ignorance from whence
Il eminated; but, as the gentleman says:
The creamery men in the region
round about, and as there have been
some parties at Mt. Hope trying (but
failing) to make success of a cream
cry on the Ii inch basis. who have this
year put in the Fairlamb cans, we pre-
sumo he means them. Perhaps We
ought to LET them answer his questions,
but as they apply to al creameries, we
take the liberty of doing so. lie says.
Perhaps the creamery men can cy-
plain this, and / am very much in
clined to think they can. One hundred
and thirteen cubic inches to the pound
is the standard gauge, and ali creamer-
les arc run on this basis. One inch on
the Fairlamb andrwo on straight can
ii 81 inches in diameter, are the same.
We never heard of a,ay creamery but
the Nit. Hope concern taking an inch
and three-quarters to the pound, and
their failure to make success on this
basis. is proof that it will not work.
We have this to say about the matter,
have never used the straight can, but
have found to our sorrow that an inch
OF cream on the Fairlamb can miH not
make a pound of butter the season
through, and that creamery run on
this basis is the loser every time. The
experience of all creamery men will
bear us out in this statement. In con-
yersatiou with the proprietor of the
Darlington creamery, to-day, he in
formed us that during the two seasons
in which they have used the Fairlamb
can, they have paid for 1000 more
guages OF cream than they made
pounds Of butter. We feel very much
as your correspondent does that we
would like to see fair play. but think on
the present basis the creameries are
getting left. Ii your correspondent
will take the pains to read up a little
on this matter, he will find that the
dairy reports from all sections of the
country are the same. that the standard
guage OF cream will not make Il pound
OF butter the season through. Many of
the creameries are doing away with il
altogether, their losses having been 50
great that they cannot and will not
stand it any longer. and are now taking
every patrons cream and paying for it
according to the per cent of butter il
contains. In this way the farmer gets
all that is in his cream, and the cream
cry men get what they pay for. On the
present basis of an inch to a pound.
they don't Your correspondent should
post himself up u little, before seeking
glory and renown, by rushing into
print about :. matter which his words
prove him to be entirely ignorant of.
He says he has talked with different
ones and they told him that Il inches
would make a pound of butter. Per-
haps it will in June, but may we ask
the gentleman if he inquired of these
parties whether they had ever tested
it in the fall9 Every intelligent farmer
knows that certain amount of cream
will MAKE more butter in June than
any other time, because 1t is thicker
and there is more butter in il. AT the
| other end Of the season the cream is
thin, and any man of common sense
knows that such cream will not pro-
duce the butter. We told our patrons
last season we would gladly pay the m
| for all the cream in excess of the pound
to the inch during the early part of
| the season if they would pay us for
the shortage in the fall. They were all
satisfied however to let the matter stand
on the basis of a pound to an inch; the
seasons experience proved this to be
loosing operation for us. When your
correspondent learns something about
the dairy business we would all no
doubt be glad to hear from him again,
but until that time, he should know that
airing ones ignorance of any subject
in a newspaper is always in poor taste
| We think the farmer has as much com
mon sense as the rest of us, and it's not
paying him very hattering compliment
to have scould be oracle try TO demon
strate that he is an ignoramus.
Yours truly
DEPUY & MORSE,
Props Lancaster Creamery.
MAY q, 1888.