Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1886-02-05
THE CREAMERY QUESTION AGAIN.
MIDDLERrRY. Feb. 3. 1856.

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been If Mr.. Douglas had made an ex-
ception in his remarks to the Cooley |
cream-gathering system, of course |
would have had nothing to say, but he
admits that he did refer to it by impica-
ton. certainly don't complain of any |
thing he said. and only wish to correct /,
any error of statement into which he may
have fallen.
Mr.. Douglas says that the cream-gath- |
ering system is the pet incubation of the
Vermont Farm Machine Co. and that |
am their agent for selling them. Well,
supposing that is all true. think the
company have reason to feel proud of the
results of their efforts in that direction,
for they can have the satisfaction of feel
ing that they are every day receiving the
thanks and blessings of tens of thousands
of dairy-women, whom they have relieved
of the drudgery of the dairy-room. and
of an equal number of dairymen who can
reckon the profit from their dairy at
from % to 30 per cent more than they
could receive in any other way. Mr..
Douglas figures the cost of creamery
say in reply to this that the patrons
of Il creamery get their creamers at the
wholesale price, which makes a material
difference in the cost; and he has stated
BILE the necessary expense. | don't think
the Vermont Farm Machine Co. say that
a building necessarily costs Sl700, but
only that n certain building did cost that
amount As to investing 5000 in teams
and wagons; will say that the cream
gatherers, as far as know, furnish their
own teams. etc. and receive about $3.50
per day.
Mr.. Douglas says "that by this cream
gathering system there is no saving of
labor in the farm house" 1t does seem
to me that this statement is too absurd
for any one to make, when the fact is
that all the dairyman has to do is to
strain the milk, which he has to do any
way he may dispose of it, and when the
cream-gatherer comes around he skins
it. All there is to be done in the house
is to wash the cans, which is IA good deal
less work than washing those in which
the whole milk is carried to the factory
and the sour milk is returned. If pat
ron has 20 TO 80 cows, and uses ice, 1t
may require from 20 to 30 minutes day
TO put the ice in the creamer. 1t needs no
, ,.-atahin,r NJ ho1,, I'm for na
after using one week ever looks at the
thermometer, for they know about how
much ice to put in and when it is once
down to 45 degrees the cream will all
rise before the temperature does. So
much for requiring 80 or 60 persons to
attend to the milk at home; the fact is
the work is all taken out of the house.
and there is but a few minutes a day adj
ded to the mems work.
, Mr.. ID. says 1.-THE amount of travel is
, the same in both systems" Now, if pos
sible, this is more absurd than the for
mer statement. suppose one has 800 lbs
of milk to draw to Il factory, three miles
to-day. and draws it back. less the cream
say 100 lbs, tomorrow, leaving 400 lbs.
this would be equal to drawing 800 lbs
. one way, the same distance the cream
/ would be drawn on the cream-gathering
. plan, making saving of nine-tenths the
carriage in the cream-gathering over the
Q whole-milk plan. 1t would be just as
" reasonable to say that it is as easy Il
o draw IA ton as one-ninth of it.
: Mr.. Douglas says that if the location
o of the patrons could be regulated sucl
u and such things could be done, but W,
. have to take these things as they are anC
) not as we would have them, and that i
NJ Just what did in the article to which ht
2 refers. He also says that the patrons o.
: a separator can each have his milk ruI
. through by itself and in that way get a
the butter value of their milk the same AZ
in the Cooley. If this is so, why dom
they do it and get rid of all the dissatis
faction which exists on this very poin
among the patrons of every factory run
on the separator plan with which | an
acquainted. Any one acquainted Will
be so run that there will be from 10 to 2
per cent more or less cream from giyel
II amount of milk, just as the operator pre-
l. fers, sol is very easy to beat man if i
S is desirable to even up his dairy with hi
y neighbor's.
We need not go great ways to fin,
# an example of the injustice of putin,
|, good milk with the poor at the sam
y price by the pound, and then average
N so the patron who has a dairy which vii
4 make "A pound of butter from IL to |
2. lbs. of milk will get no more butter fror
e n given quantity of milk than anothe
i patron who requires 20 to 30 lbs. of mil
+. from his dairy to make pound of butter
st We will only go to New Haven, where