Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1883-03-14
The Butter GIObule Again.

The Butter GlObule Again.
Some time since the New England
Homestead printed the following. under
the head of Churns: "Churns constructed
on the principle of the old fashioned
vertical dasher are coming extensively
into use in Orange county, N. Y, and
nave been introduced in several of the
best Connecticut creameries. Those who
use them claim that the butter is just as
good, if not better in every way, than
lint made in any of the new tangled
churns. This seems to be another instance
of practice stepping in to knock science
higher than kite, for the doctors have
maintained these many years that a
dasher breaks the butter globules and
INJURIES the grain, and so prevents making
butter of the best quality. We hope TO
have this point thoroughly ventilated"
We can't tell. of course, what doctors"
the Homestead has consulted, but DR..
Arnold of dairy science fame, some ten
years ago, at a meeting of the dalrymen's
association at Essex Junction, VT, adj
vised the use of the old fashioned dash
churn with close fitting dasher, aOiM The
object of breaking the butter globules, his
theory being that the butter would not
come" until the membrane of the glob,
ules was broken. But that breaking the
globules "injures the grain" is, we think,
IN entirely original discovery of the Home
stead; at least in a very extensive and
long continued study Of what has been
written on the subject we never saw that
idea suggested before. The writer
quoted above evidently supposes that the
globules constitute the grain" being not
aware that they are much too small to be
visible to the naked eye. The present
secretary of our dairymen's association
'goes for" both this notion and Prof.
Arnold's together, saying: The idea
that dash moved up and down in a
churn containing mass of cream should
break butter globule! One would think
TO read the cautions about breaking the
globules that they were about us big as
butternuts instead of being about the one
thousandth part of an inch in diameter"
Again, our secretary, quoting the late
Prof. Wizards query as 10 whether the
idea of a membrane over the globue may
not be an error (as it certainly ts,) quotes
also "Prof. Jessup of the New Hampshire
agricultural college" (irst we ever heard
of him) as affirming the old belief, and
adds: practically it is matter of not
the least Importance, but one of those
theoretical points which the supporters of
either theory are very strenuous in main
tanning"
Yet we will submit to the good sense OF
readers, in view of the fact that such
prominent writers on dairy topics as
Profs. Arnold and Willard TO say nothing
of the HonlesteaO have based their prac-
ical directions for butter manufacture,
and the structure of dairy apparatus,
upon their ideas in regard to the butter
globule, whether it is not highly
practical matter, and one that deserves
conclusive settlement. We recognize the
fact, indeed, that many of our best
dairymen. by their practice, dismiss the
doctrine of a globule membrane as
fiction, proceeding exactly as though there
were none with perfect success; yet when
even now, in so good a dairy region as
Orange county, N. Y. the old dash churn
is returned to with the purpose referred
to in the Homestead, it seems plain that
the truth about it, is worth being made
still more widely known among farmers
7r. Hosktns in the Aqricultural De- |
11rtn, mt Of the Waterman.
illustration of the old answer
F., ''DDs 10 not agree with the theory.
49, worse for the facts If
e needed to prove that
nyth'hg aaore "cA nbranous enve)one
he question Of a ms, 1919" ar e 1922,
0 the butter glotsle N ,bat ,ha aha~a
Importance, it would ssssa
gould furnish it. fror,
The old dash churn has been ti,, .,,.
me lromanorial, before ever a IN
iobue was thought Of, and good butter
II de by it. Since thai remote period h
ylen they came into use the hundreds of T.
j. her churns have been used and we do n
lo! know of one in which good butter b
an not be made by intelligent and careful ii
Iairymen, and the question of their use is 81
question of economy and one which the n
natter of an envelope does not enter. If a
churn does not agitate all the cream and i
portion sticks to the walls of the churn, a
What odds whether the butter globule in \
hat cream has q membranous, or a cast O
ron envelope or none at all, if it is rot tt
ubject to that action which brings the
lnttor. We never saw Il churn which h
;ould have much mechanical effect in n
,roaking the envelope of q butter globule Il
+ It has one, except perhaps one which q
WAS made like paint mill, and | believe \,
hat was satisfactory except that it took SO V
ono to run the cream through. The
treat practical importance Is pretty '
veil illustrated in the authorities quoted. "
-rof. Arnold recommended the old dash d
,hurn because it Uow1d break the globules e
.nl the Homestead and the dairynien in h.
Connecticut evidently think it does not u
freak the globule and injure The grain. O.
Whether you start with one theory or the h
other, the result with the old dash churn, C
N the goat skin of the half.cvilized IL
RIDES, will be just the same, and as :,
,emarked before, we don't know of k
rhurn which would be likely to corner !
butter globue of a thousandth part of an h
inch in diameter and just bang off that =
,nveiope. Perhaps there may be sometime b
of sufficient power to solve U
.ho question, but till then we advise our
lairymen to get good cows, feel them :
we'll, keep them and everything used
about their milk serupulonsly clean, to be
careful in churning and working their ,
butter. ,
PROF. SANBoRN.-We have received c
from Prof. J. W. Sanborn of the Missouri
agricultural college farm, Bulletin No. !,
Of farm operations, chiefly the feeding of
PIGS. Experiments with 5ear-old pigs II
get 2C.5 pounds again in live weight for {