The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1890-01-09
What Is q Creamery.

What is a Creamery.
Editors Of the anderson ateiEgencer:
In answer to your question, I will say
that, as ne now understand it, a "crea-
mery,' is place where the cream is
separated from milk in sort of profes
sional or scientific manner. One mode
Of faeparating is to set the deep cans of
milk in water kept at a temperature of
As to 80 degrees, when complete sepa.
ration is brought about in from eight to
twelve hours. Where this mode is prac.
ticed, ne have what is called a creamery
"a bureau or kind of cabinet piece Of
furniture arranged to hold the milk cans
where either spring or we'll water may
be used with or without ice. This style
of creamery may be of any size, from a
small dairy or family size up to a size
that will hold the milk ofa hundred or
more COWS. The other mode of separa.
ting the cream from milk is by mechani-
cal means-by the use Of what is called
,separator--a centrifugal mill into which
the milk can be put and the cream
separated Immediately after taking from
the COW. This separator is a costly
machine, and cannot be pro6tably used
to work up the milk from less than 100
or $50 cows In either mode, the ripen.
ing or maturing of the cream ready for
the churn, and the churning, may be the
same.
But the man that "gets there first" is
just now a little ways behind both of
these methods, who is now on exhibition
with what is called butter extractor"
This is also machine on the centrifugal
order, which. extracts all the oil or butter.
fat contained in the milk Immediately
after taking from the COW.
If this butter extractor becomes an
entire success it will knock out Of our
vocabulary all that business now called
creamery business, and ne will get up
closer to the COW, and call this new
business the butter factory-where the
dairymeu may carry their cows milk and
have the butter ground out of it very
much after the fashion ne now have of
carrying wheat to mill to get the ine,
white -four ground out of it. The
remaining problem about this butter
extracting business is, what about the
flavor? Some of the professional, pro.
gressiYe, and other dairymen, who will
continue dairyipg after the orthodox
fashion, insist that the cream must go
through the ripening process in order to
give the butter that aromatic or nutty
flavor that is 30 palatable and desirable
in first class butter, while on the other
hand, the butter extractor men claim
that the favor is already in the buttera.
cious materia, and all that is necessary is
to separate the butter globules from the
sack in which it is enclosed and we get
the flavor, and it does not matter whether
this be done by chemical or mechanical
process. Thus it is apparent just here
that science and progress in the dairy
business go hand in hand here as well as
anywhere else, and the day is nigh at
hand when .dairying and farming must
be.taught in our colleges as a science, for
there is science in feeding animals as we'll
as managing the balance of the dairy
business; and the man that puts before
us the old gag "that our iliterate fore.
fathers made better crops than We now
do with all our knowledge" needs to be
told that q man can get sick and break
down his constitution without the aid of
science, but he calls on the science Of
medicine to build him up again.
A man can, without any knowledge of
science, cut away the beautiful forest,
fire the prairie, and butcher away in the
rich virgin soil and make good crops, but
when mother earth has been robbed of
this virgin soil and the farmer is called
upon to build it up again he cannot do
it without the aid Of science. By the aid
of science we have seen the finty phos.
phate rocks of our coast regions turned
into the best fertilizer and sent to the in
terror to be used by the unscientifc far
mer; and who can say that if those far
mers who use these fertilizers knew as
much about the science of its use as those
do that manufacture it that ne would not
reap three times the value We now do
from its use? If ever these bare, i'm.
poverished lands and hills of OURS
are covered again with green dress
after the fashion of dame Nature and
made to "blossom as the rose," it will bs
done through the aid of science in agri.
culture. J.C. STRIBL1NG.
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