The Somerset reporter., 1890-05-15
TALK FOR DAIRYMEN.
a coNkoIsSEUR COMMENTS ON SKIM
MILK CHEESE.

MILK CHEESE.
Have Either q Large Herd n Small
Farm-About Selling Milk That Is =
Against FILLED" Cheese.
Cultivate a small farm rather than q
large one, unless you possess captsal suf-
ficient to back big enterprise. In other
words, make your acreage proportionate
to your resources Do not consider this
too obvious rule for repetition till you
have glanced over the file of farmers in
Your vicinity and observed how many do
not conform to its precepts. If you
have but little stock ranging over IA large
area of pas,urage either increase your
ntoneyed income by acquiring larger
herd, or part with the superfluous land
and obtain relief from the thrall of debt
No dairyman with the least vestige of
conscience will sell the milk from cows
recently calved. Any one found pol
luting pure milk with fluid of a prema-
ture quality should be summarily dealt
with, and yet how often is this rule
transgressed in early spring. Some for
eign born farmers are not so particular
in this regard as fastidious Americans
would be- because their native customs
were drafted from a different pattern
than ours. SO, observing merely an in
herent usage, some will use the third
and fourth milking, when nothing short
of the ninth should be saved. Factory
men should enact stringent rules in this
regard, and see that they are enforced.
Questionable quality in spring made
dairy goods is often due to an indiscreet
or dishonest latitude in the direction in
timated.
Never expose your milk to rain. In
dairy districts, where milk is delivered
at the mandatory once day, the even
ing's drawing must be stored i'll can
over night ut the farm. In hot. muggy
weather, with no ice or spring water for
use. many dairynen leave their cans of
milk uncovered in the most open airy
spot on the premises. The precaution is
wise and essential one to prevent milk
from tainting or souring, but there should
be roof over the cans. Four posts set
ten feet or so apart, and IA high roof, will
leave structure with open sides and a
free air circulation, and the milk will be
protected from the damaging effect of
rain water Rain water in milk necessi-
tates the use of a lactometer at the fac
tory to arrive Mt the correct weight, and
its presence i'll the tactical fluid debases
the quality of the manufactured product.
The recently published protest from
Liverpool against the further importa-
ton into the United Kingdom of Ameri-
can ''filled" and SKINNED cheese should,
at this period of the year, have some
weight with dairymen and with manu-
facturers. A strong tendency of late
years in the cheese trade has been to get
something out of nothing, so the milk
has been skinned, and in many cases
the depleted fluid dosed with buttermilk
before it was reduced to compound
called "cheesc" The something from
nothing policy don't work either in this
country or the old, and on the eve OF
another season factorymen should pause
ere they commit repetition of the err
ror, and heed the note of warning that
sounds in their ears.
The people demanded the government
to protect them against oleo and has not
the time come when similar protection
is needed against spurious cheese? Is il
not just rs wicked and damaging to the
consuming public to palm off on them
SKINNED and filed cheese for something
more genuine, as to sell them lard fol
butter? The sentiments of the people al.
ready respond in the affirmative, and
would it not be better for manufacturers
to mt once throw up the skinner and
concede defeat rather than longer jeop-
ardize the national cheese trade? 1t is
simply case of biting ones nose off to
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sal appendage of trade will be irrepara-
bly, dcfaced unless good sense cries a
speedy "Haltv'
Dairymen and manufacturers, rs you
are now holding meetings over the land
| to decide on the seasons course, take d
unanimous vote that you will not make
any SKINNED or filled cheese, and you
will do yourself and the trade at large Il
| financial benefit, Manufacturers often
| yield to the opportunities of their dairy
| patrons, who, eager to make every cent
possible, overreach their own interests
by demanding butter and cheese making
under one roof. The milk producers then
are in II measure responsible for the ca
lamity that o'ershadows them, and they
should do their part to avert its consum-
nation. George E. Newell in American
Cultivator.