Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1889-07-05
GIVING DAIRYMEN A LESSON.
FolIowIng speciaI d.spatch from

heavy and persistent rains thai
have fallen lately no doubt causet
many to put an unfavOrable in
depreciation upon the somewhat
threatening sky and the sOutherly
breeze of this morning. Yes, 10y
| II o'clock, about hundred of the
dairy farmers wives of this section
of Delaware County gathered al
the Fair Grounds to hear and see
the whole subject Of butter making
discussed and practically demon
strated. This duty tell to Colonel
Frank ID. Curtis, of Charlton,
Saratoga County, and William IL.
Gilbert, of Richland, OswegO
County, both well known and sue
ceSSful daiIymen, who have been
selected by the State Association
10 act as instructors at this series
of conferences. AS some mis-
apprehension exists on that point,
it may be well to say that these
conferences are under the exclusive
auspices Of the New York State
Dairymen's Association, of which
Professor !. Z. Roberts, of Ithaca,
is president, and the Hon. Josiah
Shuu, of Hon, secretary. Mr..
Shull is also the organizer and
director OF the conferences, attend
ing them personally and supervis-
ING all the arrangements. Toward
the expenses Of the meetings, of
which forty in all are TO be held
this year, the Legislature has sp.
propriated $4,000. After Mr..
Gilbert had red from the sOciety's
bulletin a clear statement Of its
objects, mainly directed to showing
the farmer how 10 meet the grow
ing demand tor butter of the best
grade and finest quality on the
part of the consumers, whose tastes
are daily becoming more highly
educated, Colonel Curtis briefly
and IN simple terms stated the
maze and nature of each of the
chemical constituents of which
milk. cream and butter are com
posed, showed the part played by
each changes that take place in
separating the cream from the
milk, and finally IN converting 1t
into butter. Mean while Mr.. Gil
bert took of his coat and proceed
ed to churn the cream from a
sample furnished by Elias B. How
land, and skinned from twO-hun-
bred pounds of milk, representing
four.ffths of Mondays milking OF
his twenty.one grade Jersey COWS.
The churn, which was the square,
revolving pattern, depending on
the principle OF conclusion, was
then turned forty eight times a
minute, for twenty minutes, when
the buttermilk was drawn oil, the
butter treated with strong brine,
then again washed with water, the
butter skinned Oft, and laid on the
butterworker. After beng worked
for few minutes and sailed at the
rate of an ounce to the pound, the
butter was found to weigh thirteen
aud a.quarter pounds. Better
quality and color one would not
wish to see.
In the afternoon a similar demon
stration was made with the cream
from a like quantity OF milk from
seventeen cows owned by William
&. Thompson, mainly of low
grades, but including a small pro-
portion OF the Jersey strain. The
same churn, revolved fifty-six times
a minutes. The quantity, however,
proved to be only seven and a half
pounds, but the quality and color
we're good AS this second ex-
pertinent showed a yield of only
one pound of butter from twenty.
six and a half pounds Of milk,
while the first sample had given
the same result with fifteen pounds
of milk, and as both samples had
been impartially chosen by the
local committee, a more convincing
proof of the great value of these
conferences could hardly be de.
handed. The faces OF the spectators
showed that they had learned
something. Most expressive OF all,
perhaps, was Mr.. Thompson's, as
well it might be; for, even allow
ing literally for variation IN the
ripeness of the cream, the difference
against his commercial result, as
compared with Mr. HOwland's
amounts TO 50 per cent, a hand.
some dividend at any time, but
especially in these days of active
competition in all directions
Moreover, as Mr.. Gilbert pointed
out, the difference in the price of
the best butter and that which is
only ordinary is the difference be-
tween 80 cents and 1G. 1t Is also
worth noting that Mr.. Gilbert
declared the average proportiOnate
yield throughout the State to be
about the same as Mr.. ThompsOn's,
without eliclting the dissent of any
one present. But the dairy farm
ers aud their wives, who listened
and watched so earnestly, even
eagerly, had not come to take their
instruction on fai,h aud Colonel
Curtis and Mr.. Gilbert were kept
husv far An hOur i'm answering. al.