Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1890-12-26
A CHAPTER ON oHuRNs.
Prof. Henry of the Wisconsin Export
ment Station Gives His Views.


ment Station Gives His Views.
VIII the time ever come when a
patent is not issued every day in the
year for some new kind of churn or
farm gate? Judging from present APP
pearances there are just as many men
now as ever in the past who are perfect
ly confident they have the best and
only perfect churn. Almost every sum-
mer here at Madison strangers move
into some otherwise unoccupied store.
room on the leading street and keep
"open 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-lilIe rapidity before the
eyes of the gaping crowd Only couple
of years since parties doing business in
this way gave churning exhibitions,
and in the presence of two of the high
est officials in our State turned cream
into butter in 'wo minutes by the
watch, and what seems to me a much
harder thing to do, they obtained the
signatures of these two parties to a
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
binary churns?
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 into 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 sc
as to get the best results possible, sc
far as we knew. What was the out
come? The novelty, which had brought
butter in the presence of hundreds il
two minutes, not mile and q hal
away, now came out two minutes be
hind the other churn and did not de
liver quito as much butter, though
| probably the difference was accidental
Where was the discrepancy? The
whole matter was plain to us when w
recollected that the parties operating
tho churn in the city never churned bu
two or three quarts of cream, and tina
they made the paddles go so fast tina
they beat the little mass of cream int
butter in mo time" When the churl
was given reasonable amount of worl
to do it did no better and even no
quite SO well, as a much simpler instru
ment.
After having looked over many of TIN
new inventions have come to the con
clusion that we have reached the limi
of progress in churns along the presen
line. OF course, new directions ar
opening up-the butter extractor, TO
examp le-but do not believe there ha
been single advance made in the com
mon churn for more than decade OK
cept in regard to the covers, which hav
been materially improved. The hes
churn to buy is the simplest; this is
simple box or barrel that turns over an,
over.
In buying churn of this class Sc
that it is strongly bound together, S
that. the falling cream will not poun
it to pieces. Next, look to the open
ing, which should be ample-the large
the better-in order to remove the but
ter easily and to facilitate washing an
airing. See that the cover is easil
managed and fits closely. Some of tn
late Improvements in tao covers c
barrel and box churns are very salts
factory. Barrel and box churns are tn
simplest in construction and consC
quently the lowest in price of any o
the market, so that the best is not onl
the cheapest but also tho lowest priced
Avoid all churns with inside fixtures
such as dashers, paddles and scrapers.
churn with these paddles In turns out n
moro butter and makes it>no easier tina
q revolving churn. They are ditficuI
to wask and keep clean. All churn
with paddles require bearings; thes
grind up the cream into grease an
blacken it, often making the butte
unsightly. Many of the patents o
churns are for devices to aerate tn
cream. Most of these are simply ridi,
ulous, If we wish to get air throug
the cream we can do it most effectuall
by having it tumble about in revol'
, ing barrel or box.
We are apt to grumble about taxe
, there is no tax that rests so heavil
upon our shoulders as that laid by is
norance. Every year oily-tongue
agents take from our people, for whic
nothing is given in return, more none
, than State, county and town take
combined amount to. One of the mo.
J common of these agents is the man wit
the patent churn.-W. A. Henry,
Breeders Gazette.