The Portland daily press., 1892-04-29

cause it returns to you again after it has
afforded sustenance to the animal.
| Experiments with sheep at Orono were
| given. One lot of sheep lost 1854 pounds,
the other 1855 pounds; the loss was upon
the lot that were the poorest fed. and
those who had all they wanted to eat
well repaid them The lambs ready for
| the market, by reason of good food,
brought Is to 20 cents per pound. Those
poorly fed they had to keep so long they
did not bring half so good price. You
cannot feed animals to produce a pound
| of solid matter without it costing about
20 cents. The dairy was the best place
for profit for hay, and that was the
best use our farmers can make OF their
hay. Study your cows and feed your
hay to good milk machine in the shape
of a good COW.
Mr.. Vinton stated that hay was look
ing up. Three hundred tons had been
sold at the depot during the past season
in the town in which he lived. One man
had sold $1400 worth. 1t was the sur
plus. One man in his town had decided
two or three years ago that he would sell
all OF his hay. Today that man was in
straltened circumstances and borrow
ing money. The best use to make of hay
was to feed it to stock upon the farm.
Experiments Followed
with the milk machines and Mr.. Weeks
of Vassalboro explained his experience
on his dairy farm. The advantage was
that he could get his cream at once. 1t
was also of value in getting skim milk to
feed to stock while it was still warm, al
most as though it came from the cow.
AS to the cost of the separator, Mr..
| Weeks said that it was keeping II cows.
He should consider that he could not af-
ford to do without one if it did cost
1925. He marketed his cream for 25
| cents quart and found it more proita-
BILE than to use it for butter fat He
thought that 25 cents a quart was not
enough for heavy butter fat cream.
| In answer to q question as to the adj
| Instability of using the machine in small
herds, Prof. Jordan said that it had not
been considered an economical invest
ment for less than herd of twenty cows.
Mr.. Weeks further explained that it
| took him about an hour after the milking
to run his milk through the separator.
Prof. Jordan explained the mechanism
of the machine which may be procured
of Kendall & Whitney of Portland.
The question was if you had
cows enough the machine would pay. In
other words if you had twenty cows
you would have twenty-one COWS in
extracting butter fat over the old
process of cold setting.
A recess was taken for dinner and
goodly number partook of the hospi-
talities of the Harraseekit house where
an excellent dinner was served.
AFTERNOON SESSION.
The first business was an exhibition of
the Babcock tester by Professors Jordan
Winslow and others. This machine as
explained by Professor Jordan is for the
purposes of testing just how much butter
fat there is in milk, or to show, as Mr..
Vinton expressed it, ''just how much
our cows are worth" Experiments were
made upon the platform and the whole
process explained. A further exhibition
of the separator was also made at the
same time for the benefit of those who
who were not present at the morning
session. The exhibition was watched
with much interest and many questions
were asked which were lucidly explained
by the professors and dairymen who
used the machines.
The exhibition of the milk machines
over, the programme for the afternoon
was an address by
Professor L. o. WinsIow
of st. Albans, Me-, lecturer of the Maine
State College and proprietor of one of
the large butter factories of the state, in
which the milk of a thousand cows in
that section is utilized. Subject, cad
vantages of the Creamery SYSTEM
Prof. Winslow in opening said that he
would make some remarks in a general
way as he understood that it was pro-
posed to establish a creamery in Free
port or vicinity. The dairy business of
Maine had increased greatly within
few years and Maine butter now ranked
as high in the markets as the butter
from any other state. Maine was now a
dairy state and butter making was one
of the important industries of the state.
Mr.. e. b. MaIlet, Jr.,
Sdlu UllttO IlC 1i1tl ODSSINGu UIlGlE lQGUuOu
in recent trip to the West but had come
to the conclusion that the only line upon
which they could work in Freeport at
present would be to sell the cream. He
thought it would take two years for
thorough understanding between the
factory and the farmers. He for one
should be willing to wait couple of
years for any return from an investment
in a creamery.
Prof. Winslow explained how high
toned creamery had come to grief
through entirely unnecessary expensive
management.
Mr.. Mallet was satisfied that the only
way for this community at the present
time was for the farmers to set their
milk at home and have the cream col
lected by the teams of the creamery.
Professor Winslow thought that the
average price Of sufficient cream to pro-
duce a pound of butter was 20 cents.
Mr.. Vinton thought, as general rule,
farmers did not set value enough upon
skim milk to feed out. The opinion was
generally acquiesced in. q
The subject of the proposed creamery
and its nrOSnactS were diScussn6 at some