Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1889-02-21

and therefore the cream requires more
time for ripening and will not yieiu lda s
full amount of butter unless II mas sum-
Client time to Tipen. 80.
II Is inpossible to ripen the Cooley
cream in the time allowed uhder llle
printed rules of Prof. Nhitcher Tor the
/ tests without ..starte.."
In all ..non-submerged" apparatus the
cream is undergoing the process OF rip
euing while the cream is rising. Inc
cream on open pans is practically ripe
when ready 10 skim, and can be churnen
at once and Weld the full amount OF but
ter. This Is proved by the tests we are
discussing. The pans made more butter
/ than cold deep setting, and yet the anal
ysis OF its skinned milk showed that
| there was more cream or fat left in 1t
than by the others. The Separator whips
and thrashes the cream in the operation
of separating it from the milk, and par
TALLY churns it. Ii viii ripen faster and
consequently its cream will yield its full
amount Of butter in a short test whlle
cream that ripens slower will not and Is
therefore not fix for churning because IL
has not had time to ripen. The efiicien-
cy of a cream raiser or separator as be-
fore remarked is shown by the thorough
ness with which it removes the cream
from the milk. This test j. the analysis
Of the SKINNED milk. The Cooley shows
the best i'm the tests we are discussing,
a it has In all public tests ever held.
The analysis of the butter from the
Cooley showed l.25 per cent pure Tat,
and that from the Separator 1914 per
cent, the Cooley being nearly2 per cent
better than the Separator. The analysis
also showed that the Cooley butter had
the least curd of any, proving that it
makes the purest butter.
Let Us examine and see why Prof.
Whtcher Is so bitterly opposed to the
Cooley Process.
In lSS7 when the Hanover Creamery
WAS contemplated a majority OF the
would be patrons were in favor Of the
Cooley Cream Gathering System, but
Prof. Whitcher led the opposition in ia
vor Of the Separator. and with the aid OF |
the village stockholders, who were not |
patrons. had a majority and the Separa- !
tor was adopted. Ii ran for about year
with Prof. Whitcher as Superintendent |
with Indifferent success; more or less of /
the patrons became dissatisfied, com
plant being made that good herds had |
to carry the poor, etc, etc, as all were /
paid tie same for milk.
Then tests were made; these were not |
satisfactory and caused trouble; then a
portion got weary Of carrying the milk
and demanded a branch at another por-
ton of the town, and got IL; then the |
patrons in another direction got weary 1
Of carrying the milk so far and claimed
that they should have branch if the
others we're allowed one, and became
dissatisfied and withdrew and started a
factory among themselves.
In the meantime others of the would
he patrons, including the President of
the Association, had tried and bought
Cooley Creamers, and found that they
made more butter with the Cooley than
when patronizing the Separator.
These things combined have made the
Professor and ex-Superintendent of the
Creamery, desperate; something must
be done TO sustain his position, and so
the before mentioned tests have been re-
sorted to, that no experienced or fairly
person would for a moment at
tempt.
The conclusion must inevitably be
that Prof. Whitcher is ignorant of the
science of cream raising and separating
and the ripening and handling of cream
or he is not honest, and proposed TO
prove To the dairymen Of his state, the
superiority Of his favorite machine, and
sustain his position by methods that
have been proved over and over again TO
be Enthusiastically. He could hardly
have been ignorant of these things as his
attention aud the attention of the Asso-
citation was called to them at the meeting
last year, when his then advertised tests
lizzled.
Again let us examine and see how reli-
able he is on other questions in the same
line Ia November, 1887, he appeared
IN meeting of farmers at Lebanon, n.
Ii. and told them the "Oil Test Churnn
which they used at Hanover was practi-
cally correct as correct as any thing ex-
cept the chemical test.
Issue was taken with him, and it was
shown By the best authorities in the land
that it was very unreliable.
On December 3lst, less than sixty DAYS
he published statement ia
the Gazette. weekly paper printed In
his own town of Hanover as follows:
$50 far as the Oil Test Churn is con-
| am convinced that person
Fan judge of the quality of milk just as
well by seeing it run out of "A jug as he
can by using this Oil Test Churn. 1t is
totally unreliable in my OPINION
He had grown wise in sixty days. Is
I not possible, that after more experience
N handling milk and ripening cream
md setting aside prejudice he may
grow wiser in this line rs he did in re-
gard to the ION Test Churn," and be-
,ome more competent to teach others, ,
wen in his own opinion? We trust such
will be his experience If he will be hon j
st and candid with himself.
VERMONT FARM MACHINE Co.
Bellows Falls. Vermont