Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1886-03-19
farm Copies.
FURTHER CONCERNING CREAM
ERlES.
VERGENNEs. March s, 1856

NERGENNES. MarCn ;. lSSo.
Editor Register will you kindly grant
ne space for a word more on this cream
|rv matter? 1t is on Il point on which
hany may be mislead unless they have
had experience or have given it close at
|ention. a circular put out by the Yer
Iont Farm Machine Co. is now being
krgely circulated. 1t is headed "North-
i'm Vermont Creameries Beaten Il Per
[ent." We quote from it this:
Mr. f. j. Parker of East Georgia, VT who
|uns one factory with deep settlers on the
|ream gathering plan. stated ut the meeting
III the Vermont Dairymen's association, at
Bellows Falls, Vt, January p, 1856, that ut
his factory it averaged to require 2ia inches
II cream ON his cans inches in diameter to
bake one pound of butter
The Cooley averages to require Ia inches
h their cans 81, in diameter. by getting the
|ubical contents in inches of the amount OF
|ream required in each of these cans ii will
e seen that Mr. Parkers deep settlers were
eaten by the Cooley about Il per cent. This
figuring on the cream basis. II we could 20
D the bottom rs we should like to, viz. the
MIX OASIS, we are cO1Iiltll lIlitl VII ! al nv
hctorv would show up II still greater loss, rs
urge, probably, as the Connecticut ana New
Iampshirc deep settlers. The last were beat
h over - per cent. In Mr.. Parkcrs deep set
ny factory no account of the milk set was
cpt and therefore we cannot 90 back To the
pundation-milk. If the patrons of Mr.. Par-
crs factory could have saved this loss ON
nc 1000 pounds of butter made per day II
ould have amounted to 10 pounds per day.
six months or lS0 days il would nave
mounted to 3O,G00 pounds, which, at 20 cents
cr pound, is SG,l20, or more than enough 10
lild new factory, supply ii with the appar-
us and furnish every patron with cooley
-camcr. If only 800 pounds was mhde pei
Az the loss would be S3,0j0. some one may
)scrvc that this j. an isolated case and that
deep setting factories will not show up 80
porlv. Mr. Parker j. considered one OF the
st creamery men in his state and notwith-
landing he j. so badly beaten he has done
,tter than others running with deep settlers
other states a. will he seen by examining
c reports.
Now. in place of showing gain of Il
.r cent, it simply shows that there is IA
reat difference in the quality of cream :.
a difference of II per cent more cream
tuuired for pound of butter in the one
stance than in the other. This is the
st fact we would suppose our Cooley
ivocates would admit, much less pub
sh. Let us apply this Argument little
lrther and see how it works.
In all deep or cold setting arrangements
takes two quarts of cream, or more,
II one pound of butter. With the sep
+ators we are able to run cream so thick
at less than quart will make pound
butter. Here is gain of 100 per cent
yer the Cooley can. Now, how does
lis sort of an argument look, and how
uch does it convince: Yet this is an
'erage sample.
The diaries which furnish cream to
ose Connecticut and Massachusett
eameries are largely Jerseys and grain
d. Their cream is more dense and less
it is required for Il pound of butter than
ON those diaries from which Mr.. Park
gathers his cream. SO the Jerseys and
ain-fed dairy, with their richer cream,
So largely, even II per cent, when put
with the average herd. We are pleased
have this corroborated from such "A
URGE. Yes; there is as much differ
ce in the quality of cream as in the
ality of milk; as great "A loss to the
reful dairyman, who selects his COWS
d feeds them well,in the cream-gather-
9 system as in the milk factory. No
Am with herd of rich mixers, and who
eds grain largely while his neighbors
not, can put either his milk or his
cam into the factory without loss. We
d a case in point at New Haven. II
ere were Il number of such diaries, this
hculty could be arranged for and
puld be. But it is IA great fallacy tC
ppose that the cream-gathering system
II bridge the difficulty.
Mr.. Parker is by far the most success
| creamery manager in Vermont. FOl
ur years he used the cream-gathering
stem almost entirely, experimenting {
tie with the separator. Last season
ran large factory at Colchester, us
the separators. lie had satisfied him
If as to the quality of separator butter
mixing in tubs of it with cOnsign
Pnts from his cream-gathering cream
y, and had his marketmen pick it on
d pronounce it best three times out o.
ar. His patrons set their milk il