Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1886-04-09

MIDDLEBt'R RY, Vt, April ;, 1855.
EdNor Heqisfcr:-PlcaSc accord me space to
reply to Mr., \. ID. Evarts in the REGISTER of
March 18th. notice that Mr. Evarts says that
"it is II point on which many may be nisled,
en- ii close attention" My object in replying
is, that the persons referred to may not be
mislcd by his special pleading.
He endcavored to twist the circulars of the
Vermont Farm Machine Co. in which they
state that Mr.. Parker's Georgia factory was
beaten by the Cooley factories over il per
cent, TO his own advantage, by endcavoring
to make your readers believe that in North
crn vermont, where the dairics have been
celebrated tor generations as being the best
IN New England, are not now equal to the
Connecticut and Massachusetts dairics, and
that the cream which the Vermont COWS pro
ducc iS not as rich in butter aS the others.
] don't believe Mr.. EVHrts can hOodwink
your readers quite a. easily a. that. He and
his friend Mr.. Douglas have tried that on prct-
~ thoroughly, cndeavoring to explain away
the loss of Mr.. Evarts' factory over Atwood X
Jones factory, but the more they try the bet
ter the latter factory figures ont. Let us see.
Atwood SJoncs received for the season of
! lss5, 5H, A5 lbs. Of milk which at the price
paid at Mr. Evarts' factory, viz, GG%, cents per
100 lbs. amounts to $3,3s}.G3. but Atwood 4
am greatly mistaken s47l is Il trfe more than
IA per cent OF S3,33.63 and therefore the pat.
rons of Atwood & Jones factory actually got
IA per cent more tor their milk than the pat.
rons of Mr.. Evarts' factory. | suppose Mr..
Evarts would like to have his patrons believe
that the dairics which furnish milk to Atwood
Jones are largely Jerseys, and grain fed.
But think Mr.. Evarts will not succeed. The
reason Mr.. Parker was so badly beaten is be.
cause the Cooley is more uniform in its work
the outside atmosphere does not affect il in
any way. II is every day the same. 1t does
not vary rs deep settlers do. II skins more
thoroughly ana accurately. There il no loss
IN TINS direction, by remiNing the cream with
the milk in dipping Off. In every one ot these
points there are losses hv the decp settlers
which nggregate the large per cent of differ
cnce. The difference is not in the butter max
ing qualities OF the cream, as Mr., Evarts
would like to have your readers believe, for
the purpose OF bolstering up his unequal plan
of whole milk by the separator. Extended
experiments with cream from different breeds
of COWS, raised under the same conditions,
show that the difference in the butter making
qualities is very slight as compared with the
difference in whole milk, and therefore the
cream gathering plan is NOR" equitable, ana
consequently more pnpuEtr where lt- adVan-
tagCs are understood. | uIn very much sur
prlscd that Mr.. Evarls should make the state
incnt that there l. ~ much difference in the
butter qualities Of cream u~ there L. in the but
ter qualities of milk. Very few Intelligent tlai
rymcn can he made to believe that. Many of
your readers know from their own expert
cnCc that such il not the case: and many
know that II gallon OF native cows cream will
make as much butter us u gallon ot JERSEYS
cream, raised by the same process, while IA
gallon OF Jersey cows milk will, as "A rule,
make twice as much butter Is gallon of ma
tive COWS milk. All experiments show that
the variation in cream is nothing n compar.
ed with the variation in milk.
Many Jersey breeders have joined the Cool
=
have found that they received pay for what
they produced; viz. the large quantity of
cream, but not One-quartcr of the patrons of
any factories are Jersey breeders. The ma
jority have common breeds of cows. This .
class are satisfied too, because they get pay
for what they produce, viz, the quantity OF
cream,
Asa tact the Cooley cream gathering sys- |
TEN does bridge the difficulty, notwithstand- |
ing Mr. Evarts says il does not.
Mr.. EVnrts says that Mr.. Parker is the most /
successful creamery manager in Vermont.
Mr.. Parker told the Vermont Dairymen's as /
sociation at Bellows Falls, in January that |
the patrons OF his cream gathering factory at !
Georgia got moro for their milk than the pat /
rons of his separator factory nj Colchester got /
This brings the whole subject To one point ]
viz, do the dairymen want to use the system, /
or plan that pays them the best or the one /
which, "the most successful creamery man of .
Vermont" wants them To use;
We have Mr. Parker's admission that the /
cream gathering patrons ut Georgia got bet
ter pay than the separator patrons ut COL /
chester, and yet Mr.. Parl<er's patrons nj Geor-
gia did not get as much by II per cent. as they /
would had they used the Cooley system.
Let us see what the offers of the Vermont /
Farm Machine Co. to the Georgia patrons in /
my letter of last week, amounts to. MIR. Park
er has informed me that he made 1000 lbs. of
butter per day AT Georgia last year, and ex-
poets To make more this year; he gets cents