Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1892-05-05
Thai MILK PUMP.
No Good Because ii Cannot he KEEP
Clean. Says an Expert.


Clean. Says an Expert.
That milk pump. Do you know
feel inclined to class it as a worse curse
to our creameri.s than that UNDER
ground, stinking Guttermilk tank. Do
you know ! suspect that even in Den
mark, where there is no lack Of help to
keep everything clean, the milk pump
IS at the bottom Of the complaints that
have been made lately about the keep
ing quality Of the butter. The milk
pump, regret to say, seems to be very
popular with the creamery designers
and builders, because it simplifies their
plans; with the creamery owners, be-
cause 1t saves money IN construction,
and with the farmer, because it saves
labor, nominally. SO fear that shall
have but seant sympathy from those
most interested in this.
tell you, gentlemen, if you were to
investigate the matter you would trace
many a complaint directly to the milk
pump. Not impossible to keep it clean!
Well, nc, nothing is impossible, but it is
clearly impracticable, and let me tell
you have been in creameries where
everything, including the floor, was kept
as clean as pin, but when ! put my
nose to the milk pump, there was smell
enough to favor tons and tons Of butter.
| do not blame the manager know
that neither nor anybody else can keep
it clean, and the only cure is to bury it
deep in the hole where the buttermilk
tank used to be- Surely it is hard
enough to keep the creamery sweet and
clean without adding the pump and
the greasy, sloppy rubber hose, which
is another abomination, and should be
made as short as possible both as to
length and life.
Every creamery should be built on
the side hill plan, and if the land is as
fiat as pancake an elevated drive can
be constructed 50 as to deliver the milk
high enough to let it flow into open CON
ductors; or if you object to the drive
way, why not devise some quick system
Of eleyating the milk? I confess it makes
me tired TO see no improvement on the
old slow hoisting crane used today the
same as it was thirty years ago in the
first cooperative cheese factories, and /
can understand why boys object to hoist
ing the milk that way an extra six or
eight feet. With small eight gallon
cans l would recommend the following:
Have the weigh can low enough SO that
the cans can be dumped from the plat
form on a level with the wagon and with
the top of the weigh can Then have
quick hosting apparatus by which the
weigh can, after being weighed, is shot
up and dumped into the receiving vat.
The time lost in hoisting will be gained
by the whole weigh can being dumped
at once instead Of running slowly off
through faucet. I got this idea from
Mr.. Roe when / asked him to devise
some quick way Of elevating the milk
that would do away with that milk
pump.
With large cans. all that is necessary
is to invent quick and easy way Of
hosting and dumping them, and | most
sincerely hope that You will turn your
attention to this matter. Whenever the
butter can be sold within week grant
you that the keeping quality plays but
small role, but in most cases you have to
figure on from three to four weeks as
the lifetime of the butter from the
chu1n, and although our export is small
only 9.000,000 pounds last year-the
keeping quality depends chiefly upon an
extreme attention to cleanliness, from
the cow to the tub, and although 50
much is written about the secrets Of the
Danish system. can assure you there is
nothing in it but perfect cleanliness and
strict attention to every little detail
Address Of J. II. Monrad.