Mower County transcript., 1890-12-03
A CHAPTER ON cHuRns.

a CHAPTER ON CHuRhS.
Prof. Henry oe the Wisconsin 1xpsri-
msnt seation Gives HIS visws.
Will tho time ever como whom .
patent Is not issued every day in the
year for some new kind of churn or
farm gate? Judging from present. ap-
pearances there are just g many men
now asever in the past who ars perfoct-
~ conhdent they have the best and
only perfect churn. Almost every sum-
mer hero ut Madison strangers move
into some otherwise unoccupied store-
room on the lending street and keep
Nopen house" the long season through.
The sole object Of interest they have
on exhibit is some wonderful churn,
and daily cream is turned into butter
with lightning-like rapidity before the
eyes Of the gaping crowd. Only couple
OF years since parties doing business in
this way gave churning exhibitions,
and In tho presence of two Of the high
est officials in our State turned cream
into butter in two minutes by the
watch, and what seems to me . much
harder thing to do, they obtained the
Signatures Of these two parties to =
statement of the fact, this amounting
practically to an Endorsement of the
churn. Now, it is fact that these
parties turned cream into butter in
about two minutes Was this churn,
therefore, an improvement over the Or
dinary shurns?
To test the matter We sent our dairy.
man down one day and had him pur-
chase churn without telling the pro-
prietor whom he represented or what
was to be done with it We took q
quantity of cream and divided it into
two equal parts by weight and put one
half intb the new claimant and turned
| the other into our rectangular churn,
which had been doing service for sew
eral seasons Both churns were worked
according to directions and treated so
as to get the best results possible, so
far as we knew. What was the out.
come? The novelty, which had brough,
butter in the presence of hundreds in
two minutes, not mile and halt
away, now came out two minutes be.
hind the other churn snd did not de-
liver quite as much butter, though
! probably the difference was accidental
Where was the discrepancy? The
| whole matter was plain to US when we
| recollected that the parties operating
the churn in the city never churned but
two or three quarts of cream, and that
they made the paddles go SO fast that
they beat the little mass of cream into
butter in mo time" When the churn
was given reasonable amount of work
| to do it did no better, and even not
quite so we'll, as . much simpler instru-
ment
After having looked over many of the
new inventions have come to the con-
clusion that we have reached the limit
of progress in churns along the present
line. OF course, new directions are
opening up-the butter extractor, for
exam ple-but do not believe there has
been single advance made in the COM
mon churn for more than decade ex-
cept in regard to the covers, which have
been materially improved. The best
churn to buy is the simplest; this is a
simple box or barrel that turns over and
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In buying q churn of this class see
that it is strongly bound together, 80
that the falling cream will not pound
| tito pieces Next look to the open
ing, which should be ample-the larger
the better-in order to remove the but
ter easily and to facilitate washing and
airing. See that the cover is easily
managed and fits closely. Some of the
late Improvements in the covers of
barrel and box churns are very salts
factory. Barrel and box churns are the
simplest in construction and conse-
quently the lowest in price of any on
| the market, 80 that the best is not only
the cheapest but also the lowest priced.
| Avoid al churns with inside fixtures,
| such Is dashers, paddles and scrapers- A
churn with these paddles In turns out no
more butter and makes it no easier than
| . revolving churn. They are difficult
! TO wash and keep clean All churns
| with paddles require bearings; these
grind up the cream into grease and
bIaeken it often making the butter
, unsightly. Many of the patents on
churns are for devices to aerate the
| cream Most Of these are simply ridic-
uloua 1T we wish to get air through
the cream we can do it mos. effectually Y
by having it tumble about in revolv-
ing barrel or box.
We arc apt to grumble about taxes;
there is no tax that rests so heavily
upon our shoulders as that laid by ig-
norance. Every year oily-tongued
agents take from our people, for which
nothing is given in return, more money
than State, county and town taxes
combined amount to. One of the most
common of these agents is the man with
the patent churn--W. A. Henry, in
Breeders Gazette.
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