Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1892-04-18
THAT MILK PUMP.
No Good uccause II Cannot Be Kept
Clean, SAYS an Export.

No Good nccause n Cannot Be kent
clean. SAYS AN ESpori.
Tint milk pumpl DO you know
feel Inclined 10 class It IA a worse cur
TO or crenmcfics than that nndeI.
ground, sinking buttormilk tank. DO
YOU know | suspect that oven in Den.
mark. who're there "a no lack OF help To
Keep everything clean. the milk pump
il at the bottom nj the complaints tha.
have bccn made lately abont the keep.
ing quality Of tho butter. The milk
pump. regret TO ray, seems 10 be voty
popular with tho creamery designers
and builders, because II simplilics their
plans; with the creamery owners, be.
Cauao 81 saves money IN construction.
aud with the farmer, because 1t saves
labor, nominally So fear that shah
have but scant sympathy from those
most interested In this
| tell YOU, gentlemen. u you were 10
investigate the matter Won would tiacs
many complaint directly to the mill,
pump Not impossible 10 keep II clran,
Wei, no, nothing is impossible, but tt /,
clearly imprlciicahlc. and let me tell
YOU 4 have been he creamoiios whore
everything, including the floor. was kent
az clean Us q pin, but WHOM | put ny
nose TO the milk pump, there WAS smell
enough 10 flavor tons and tons OF butter
do not blame the manager l know
that neither nor anybody else can keen
1t clean. and tho only euro is To bury u
docp ia the holo whore the butteunilk
tank used Co be. Surely It g. hard
enough 10 keep the creamery sweet and
clean without adding tho pump and
the greasy, sloppy rubber hose, which
s. another abomiuation, and should b.
made as short as possible both as 10
llngth and life.
Every creamery should be built on
the side hin plan, and u the land g. as
Hat a- q pancake un elevated drive con
be- constructed SO as 10 deliver the milk
high enough 10 Let Il flow into open com
ductors; or II you object 10 the drive.
way. why not duyi-o some quick system
OF clcya,ing the milk confess 1t makes
me urod 10 see no improvement ON tho
old sloy hosting crane used today tho
same ~ ii WIS thirty years ago IN tho
first cooperative cheese factories. and
eau understand why boys object TO htaUt-
ing the milk that way an extra six or
eight feet, With small eight gallon
cans wonld recommend tho following:
Have tho weigh can low enough 10 that
ihc caus cau be dumped from the plat
form on a Lowell with the wagon and with
tho top ol the weigh can. Then have a
quick hosting apparatus b. which tho
weigh can, after being weighed Is shot
up aud dumped into the receiving yat
The time lost in hoisting will be- gained
by tho whole weigh can boing dumped
at once instead " running slowly on
through O. faucet got this idea from
Mr. Roe when | asked linn 10 devils,
some quick way of cloyaiing tho milk
that would do away with that milk
pump.
With large cans, nll that Is necessary
h to invent Is quick aud easy way II
hoi4ting aud dumping thom, and | mo B
sincerely hopo that You will turn Your
attention 20 this matter Whenever the
butter can be- sold within week grant
You that the keeping quality plays but =
small role, but in most eases you have To
figure ON from three 10 four weeks as
the lifetime 81 the butter from the
chun. and although our export Is small
only 100000 pounds last year-thc
keeping quality depends chiefly upon an
extreme attention TO cleanliness. from
the cow 10 the tub. and although 10
much IS written about the secrets Of the
Danish system, can assure you there &.
nothing In It hut perfect cleanliness and
sirict attention 20 every little detail
Address Of J. II. Monrad.