, 1891-05-20
TROPICAL DAIRY FARMING.
(Argosy 2 May


The Jamaica Cleaner devotes a leading arti.
Gle to the new Dairy Industry, which it claims
to be now established in the island, chiefly
through the efforts of the Exhibition Com nit
tee to show the farmers how easily cream and
butter could be produced from their milk if
they went the right way to work. 1t was a
good idea, the fitting up Of a model dairy in
the Exhibi ton, and having q cream Separator
at work with butter makers and kindred dairy
machinery. Ocular dem onstration is oonclu-
sive with most people, and when the Jamaica
cattle owners saw the milk turned into rich
cream and the cream into butter of a high
class quality, and furthermore saw tho demand
which the Heretofore unattainable dairy luxu-
rles created on the part Of the public, they
were constrained to admit that a dairy farm
promised to be a capital investment for the
money its establishment would cost. The
cream Separator soon found a number of pur
chasers, and our contemporary predicts that in
a few weeks time there will be one or more in
every parish. The expert who had charge Of
the Exhibition dairy said the milk supplied to-
him was Of average quality, not very rich bnt
quite equal to the bulk Of milk supplied to
English factories. The butter fat was of good
quality and we'll suited for cheese.making
but it had one peculiar drawback, that was tho
taste of guinea-hen grass, upon W hich the cat
tie of Jamaica very often feed. The unplea-
SAINT favour can be got rid fly adding a little
s~altpetre to the cream. It was found by prao-
teal experiment that butter could be made
without the use Office, if the churning was done
in the early morning while the temperature
was not above u or IS. The ultimate results
of the experiments are confidently expected to
be most beneficial to the colony in general
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be done, can be, that in course of a compare
lively short time the island will DO making
butter and cheese enough for it's own consump.
ton. A large number Of persons took the
closest interest in the dairy operations. Says
our contemporary
The regular pupils, acting as Dairy assist
ants, have been only two. But there has been
q large number Of pupils Of Q different class
persons Of intelligence who made appointments
at the dairy from time TO time with the view Of
being instructed in all the processes Of cream
separation, butter.making, and cheese-mAking,
and in the use and the care Of the simple ma
chimes that were needed for these purposes. A
third class OF pupils were those who without
making any appointments took their chance of
getting all the information they needed by
coming at such times as were convenient
for themselvesland getting such intruction
as they desired. In these ways it may
be justly said that the number Of pupils
has been large and intelligent, and that con-
sequently the work of dairy instruction has
been very effectively accomplished during the
too short time the Dairy has been at work.
The bulk Of the pupils now know the principles
according to which and the conditions in which
good butter and cheese can be made in Jamaica
and other similar countries; and this new
knowledge will enable them with a little prac.
tice at their homes to turn out a creditable and