The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1884-02-01
AFTERNOON SESSION.


the reading of an essay upon Shortage
in the Gathering Cream System by A.
p. Mckinstry, of Winnebago City,
Minnesota, as follows:
BY the term shortage, as used by
creamery men, we mean that in buying
certain quality of cream, which has
been supposed to make given qllanti-
ty Of butter, and it fails to do so, we
say We are short on butter, or in other
words, We bought cream enough to
make so many pounds of butter, accord
ing to the standard rules, and it failed
to make it.
Some of those who sell cream do not
believe there is this shortage, as they
never found it SO when they expert
mentea with their own cream, and they
reason that if their cream will make
pound of butter to the inch of cream,
and inferring that all cream is alike in
butter yield, then why is there short
age" But the past season has proven
that cream does vary in richness or in
the amount of butter that can be pro-
duced. | have before me clipping
from the jefferson Co. Union giving
table showing the range of value in 36
different lots of cream. The last half
of October find that il varies from 8
ounces to "a ounces-only five among
the number made exactly Ii ounces to
inch of cream, although the average
! was a little above Is ounces.
have compared this report with our
test list for the same time, and find full
" as much variation but the average
Plot quite SO high, being 15I ounces to
the inch. We are not informed as to
the price paid by the Charlton cream
cry, but suppose it to have been Is scents
per inch. no. 6 received just that, as
! his test was 100 per cent or Ii ounces OF
| butter from one inch of cream, and he
received Is cents. No. % was 80 per
cent or ounces to the inch, and he re-
ceived Q cents. No. was $50 per cent
or "a ounces to the inch and he receiv-
ed q cents. Each patron sold the same
amount Of cream but were paid differ
eat prices. Why? Because of the diff
ference in value. In this comparison
the lots of cream would, when mixed
together, hold out, and no shortage
would result to the buyer; but No.
would give one-thir0 of his receipts to
No. %. How many of your dairymen
who have been selling on the guage
plan, are No. Fours? Part of this vari-
alton is, undoubtedly, attributable to the
patrons skimming, whether much OF
little milk is taken with the cream.
cali to mind test made by myself last
November. l had two cows which
had judged to be about equal in the
amount of butter their milk produced
The nights milk was set in water side
by side, which in quantity was nearly
alike. 1t was allowed to remain un.
disturbed thirty-six hours, when the
guage showed inches of cream on the
st inch setter. 1t was carefully skim.
med and churned separately. No.
made 81 ounces of butter, No. 2 made
liz ounces Of butter, difference of 2!
ounces in favor of No. 2. This, bear in
mind, from an equal quantity of cream
before skimming. The COWS came into
milk in September, were fed alike
: The milking, care of the milk, skim
ming, and weighing of butter was done
: by myself, and think it was correct
After We were forced to shut down THU
fall by the difficulty in procuring cream
/ sent 20 gallon can OF cream from
! our dairy to the Chain Lake Creamery
Company. They returned higher
test than thought | was entitled to
. When the next can was ready for ship
\ tOOk u tcbl oeiCCS
with the one he returned for the can
( had tested but were lower than the on,
/. first sent. We continued to furnisl
7 them until they also stopped and failet
:, to catch them steadily from us. Sine
? that time We have been shipping on
cream to another creamery also run
e ming on the test churn plan and are sat
5 isfied with the returns which are a
D present running nearly one hundre'
e dollars per month. -.
t like to make butter where the facili
e ties are good, but have no love for but
: ter making in the good old way, as m
0 friend Curtiss has pictured it. As
him for his card.
r The shortage reported in Iowa fo
t the year 1892 was four per cent on a
It the butter manufactured by the crear
= gathering creameries running On tn
guage, where l have no doubt that
o was fully as much for 1888 in Minnest
l. tr. What is the remedy for the cream
s. cry man? know Of none that can b
d adopted, and deal justly with each pa
= ron except the test churn plan.
y good dairy sections where the mani
e facturer of butter cares only for his Ow
d interests, the old plan may be fOllOwe