River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1891-02-19
peep Cold Setting for Cream.

An earliest German farmer. Mr..
Chris. Klein. way up in the woods in
Pierce Co, Wis, with only four cows,
but with some heifers coming on, says
of himself, II am green in dairying
but | like to learn, and hear your ad-
vice" lie then goes on to say that he
is making butter by the open pan
method. but finds cream rises very
slowly, and he is not satisfied. Says
he has heard of the deep cold setting,
and wants to be posted about it.
OF course these are primitive ques-
lions to the great bulk of the readers
of the Dairyman, but we will sit down
by the side of such man, earnestly
seeking to know more about his bust
ness, with the same patience and
pleasure that we would give the best
posted dairymen in the land, one
more new thought, if we had one, that
he had not. Maybe we will be help
ing some one else at the same time.
We will say to him, there are two
kinds of deep cold setting practiced
with movable pals that are & inches
in diameter, and 20 inches deep. Both
are set in ice water, preferably; bat
many use them in as cold water as is
obtainable from wells or springs; but
when so used il takes more time to OBJ
tain the cream, One is the plain, or
''shot gun" can. set in water not quite
as deep as the hight of the can. Of
course this exposes the surface of the
milk and cream TO the air of the room
in which the water tank stands. 1t
works nicely during most times of the
year, when the weather is not very
cold, and the air in the room is kept
above freezing temperature. So that
method requires a fire in the milk
room in winter. The other is the sub
merged. or Cooley system, which puts
the filled cans of milk under water.
The water rises four or five inches
above the covers of the cans; so that
the water in the tank may freeze ice
three inches thick and do no damage
to milk or cream, and SO may be set in
room where there is no fire. In
such case it makes its own ice, for the
Dreaming of the next milking. There
are also several kinds of deep setting
cabinet creamers that are kept cold,
same as the shotgun, open.can meth
oil. and which achieve about the same
results, but are somewhat enclosed,
are handled more easily, but cost more
than the shotgun cans, and plain
tank.
Then there is another method fast
coming into use, for small private
diaries. advertised in our columns.
Proprietor, John Boyd. 1t don't
cream the milk at all, but puts two
milkings in one large padded can, or
vat. and stirs starter" enough into
the mass brought to ZOE temperature,
TO ripen the mass for churning the
whole milk next morning, in churn
large enough so that the two milkings
do not fill it more than two-ffths full.
With these facts before him, Mr..
Klein can judge which kind will best
answer his purpose.
Mr.. Klein is to have silo l2xl2xl6
feet, and asks will it hold enough to
feed 7 head of cows during the winter
months. We figure it will hold 2,304
cubic feet of silage, and at the rate of
cubic foot per COW, per d. would
feed head 800 days, or woulG feed ii
head ! months.
We advise him to fill it chuck full,
and get cows enough to eat it all.
Three acres of corn, good enough to
yield so bushels of shelled corn to the
acre, would fill his silO.