The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1888-04-05
CREAMERY NOTES.
HumanizinC and Educating Effects OF Fac
tory Butter Making.

CREAMERY NOTES.
Humanizlng and Educating Effects or Fac
tory Butter-Making.
Bntter-making ut creamery makes
the home life of the dairy farmer one Of
far less exacting labor for the farmer 3
wife and family. as the dairy work is
almost completely revolutionized. The
labor o. milking can be then performed
wholly by the ''mca folk" who should
do this barn-work and do it tidily,
clcanly and well. The milk is then put
directly into the creamery cans, and
there it remains until the cream man
comes for it. The milk is quickly dis
posed of by conveying it to the yonng
stock. to which it should be fed warm
and sweet, as they thus get its full feed
ing value. The farmers wife thus re-
lievcd of the work of Understanding,
butter-making and kindred matters.
has this spare time to make home more
attractive. cultivate the refining graces.
and if she may elect. may with her
daughters become we'll Informed and
become acquainted with the better class
of literature of the day. The change
in the household couldn't help being
better if so ordered. and the refining
inflenccs will be observable in the whole
family. il such thing is possible.
Funerals alone can make changes in
some households.
The creamery must have IN effect
upon the patrons. The rules for pa
irons make regularity. tidinesS study
and Improvement necessary, or there
is failure to secure good results so that
the patron will be loser. 1t must
make him better dairyman, for it is
cream results that he is after, and he
soon finds that poor dairy can not be
fed into good results, and he must get
better cows, have better stables and
barns, feel rations that make good
milk, and not beef. He will soon begin
to compare results with those of better
dairymen. and seek to correct his
errors. He will soon find that comfor:
is the great motto to be hing conspicu-
o,,sly in his barn. He will soon find
out that milk for the creamery needs
to have cream in it, and that bulk of
milk or cream is no indication of its
value for butter. and he will recognize
the fact that butter COW need not be
the size of an elephant Study in this
matter will make him an adept. not
only in selecting cows for the creamery.
butin breeding them and feeding them
as well, and the creamery will have a
double effect on the farmer, both intel
lcctually and financially.
Yes, the creamery will help the
"scrub" farmer. because he can ut a
small expense start to do better. He
need not say: Il can't succeed at a
bound, and so won't try" TIE start
can be easily made. Stables can be
made better; clover and fodder corn
can be cheaply raised for the big. cheap
ration. Ice can be had chcaply for
the gathcring--and the COW that he has
can be treated better: more like the
'great mother she tries to be; and less
like the scrub steer the farmer so often
trics-unwittingly. may be---to make
her. Sires Of good families of dairy
cattle can be had cheap. and if breed
once selectedis held on to, and not
changed every year for some other
breed. the scrub dairyman will soon
find himself possessed of fine herd OF
high grades, and he himself, rs he fos-
tiers their development. will have left
the ranks of ''scrub farmers"
The oil-test, in competent hands, is
the fairest system of according to each
dairyman the pro rata value of the
cream delivered at Il creamery. The
test is now SO accurate that ii will in
dictate within six pounds to the 1000
pounds of finished butter. No weight
OF milk or cream, no bulk measure OF
either, will be better than IL guess,
simply because it does not eliminate
the individuality of cows or dairies.
The oil-test. is not as yet absolutely
perfect; but it is substantially SO; ten
times more so than the churn test, for
vuC lllksi lCuNCS 1tolI IL VI ~ DCC
cent. of foreign matter in each 100
pounds of butter, and from two to nine
per cent. of the original butter value
of 100 pounds of milk goes off in the
buttermilk unchurned. The oil-test is
undergoing rapid Improvement and
will soon be the established arbitrator
In determining cream and milk values.
When this is accomplished, selling
cream on a pro rata footing in cooper
alive factories will be a practical sys-
tenn Of equal justice to each patron,
and will be Il factor that will weed out
poor diaries and Improbable cows.
and make the dairy industry one that
will rank for intelligence, thrift and
profit with any other feature of farm
economy.-John Gould, tn Rural NeW
Yorker.
1t is generally conceded that the
same quantity and quality of cream viii
make more butter in hot weather than