The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1888-01-20

ious, has been connected with the
presence of microbes. Some Of these
grow.hs are so small that they can
only be seen with the aid Of very
powerful microscope.
The first session of Thursday was
given to reading papers of butter max.
ing, ard discussions on the same.
John II fla, of Milton, a M mber of
the Board f Agriculture, reak paper
on the "Value aud Advantage OF the
Creamery to the Farmer" He made
butter the old way until he and his
wife were worn out, but for the last Is
months he has sold his cream to q
creamery and has abolished the old
way of making butter from his prem
ises forever. Butter making is very
hard work for the farmers wife. The
creamery relieves her of it. The
creamery pays you just a. much for
your butter in the cream as the buok-
stsr or corner grocery and it pays you
the cash. You can keep more COWS
without increasing materially your
work except the milking. The cream
cry makes better butter than is made
by the old way. There is some good
home made butter. but it is The except
ion. The material from which home
made butter is produced may be just
as good as that used by the creamery,
but the farmers wife as rule has
neither tbe facilities or knowledge to
obtain the best results. Creamery but
ter commands better prices. While
best ladle worked was quoted at 23o,
creamery was 32 to $50. The cream
cry will make more butter from the
same amount of cream than can be
made by the old way; because of its
machinery with which all the butter
can be got out of the cream. In one
month the creamery made 35 lbs more
butter than he could have made at
home, by actual test. As usual thing
the cream rry credits him with from
5 lbs. to 10 lbs more butter per month
than he could make by the old way.
In Is minutes all the work except
milking can be done for lS cows. 1t
took his wife half day of every day
in the week except Sunday to make the
butter for that many cows. A com
plete outfit for Is COWS will 'st about
$40. He also exhibited specimens of
creamery and home made butter.
Tubs in which cream was churned were
exhibited to show that equal amounts
of cream will not ohurn equal amounts
of butter. The amount of butter OBJ
tanned from given amount of cream
depends on the kind of COWS and the
care ard feed given them. H. prefer
ed Jersey COWS. The creamery pays
for the actual amount of butt. r bought.
A. P. Young, of Melville. read a
paper on ''Dairying in Columbia Co.,
will it paw" Since grain has become
so cheap that it cannot be any longer
proftably raised in this section, the
farmer should turn to something which
from its very nature will in measure
shut off C mpetition of the Western
farmer. Cows in this country will
give as much milk and butter in this
county as anywhere and furnish a
ready fertilizer by which the farmer
can enrich his fields. To make dairy
ing profitable the farmer must select
stock adapted to that purpose. Cows
must he well ted at proper times and
at intervals must be treated with kind
ness, given good comfortable quarters
and be pleasantly surrounded. Cows
should have all the feed they will eat
and Of the right kind to produce milk.
Norton Decher, of East Stroudsburg,
Monroe Co., was on the program for a
paper on How shall we Increase the
Profit of our Dairy Product,T H.
was not present, but sent his regrets
and short paper in which he answer
ed the question by saying that the but
ter maker and the consumer must be
brought into closer relationship, the
grade of COWS must be improved. 1t
cost no more to keep good COWS than
poor ones. Cows must be given the
best kind of care and attention, the
best methods of raising cream must be
ascertaiDe1 aud prasticed. and we
must learn how to make such a super
ior article of gilt edge butter from the
products 81 treated that it will be sc
acknowledged in market as to bring a
uniformly high price regardless of mar
ket quotations. The discussion which
followed these papers were both lively
and Instructive. Prof. Frear: The
creamery makes better butter than the
farmers wife because it makes butter
making speciality and in dealing with
large quantities better average result.
can be obtained than with small quan
titles. All the fertilizing constituents
of milk are found in the skim milk
Special pains should be taken to ge,
the bst stock.
H. w. Northrop said that since ht
owns creamer, he gels more cream
more butter, and makes more money
than ever before; that the butter made
at creamery is the best in the world
If farmers would throw away theil
churns and the old milk crooks anC
pans it would be to their profit; that
there is more money in dairyug thar
in anything else for the farm and i
furnishes ready means of bringing ~
his farm; that the farmers wife SHOULD
be relieved of the arduous work of but
ter making.
K r. keller: The greatest enem,
to profitable dairying is oleomargerine
H. has eaten of it at hotels and like
it about as we'll al butter. What
the odds, if it is made of cleanly an,
palatable materials. If it is healthfu
and lawful the creamery must compet
with it.
J. A. Gundy: 1t is unfair to com
pare poor home made butter with bes
creamery butter. Home made butte
could be made better by adding oertai
drugs.
| K. f. Gundy: The Patrons of Hu,
bandry were instrumental in passing
law regulating the sale of oleomargel
inc in this State An effeort to repe,
this law is made and all farmers ougf
to protset against this. He told of
manufacturer of oleomargerine wh
bought the deoayed caroasses of drowr
ed sheep. What was wanted wit
these dead bodies was easily inferred