The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1893-01-24


would have been but little shrinkag'
in their milk, and perhaps none n
all in the yield of butter.
Another serious drawback is to allow
cows to breed so As to have mos,
calves at heel in the spring of the
year, the more natural season. Ii
takes years to so regulate this matter,
as to have some cows come fresh
nearly every month for the whole
year. In the attempt to regulate this
matter comes another trouble. jersey
cows. for instance, being repeatedly
refused service when in heat, will not
conceive at subsequent presentations.
The frequent periods of heat, unsatis-
fed, will effect every COW on the farm
in making them FESTIVE, noisy and
nervous, and thus reduce the guam
tity and quality of milk for that day
at least.
GETTING READY.
Preparations are still in order, a
committee having been selected to see
to the erecting of a suitable building,
and to purchase the necessary utensils
and ct ceteras for the plant. they
commence correspondence with firnis
engaged in the manufacture of those
articles. Not one, perhaps, of the
whole company have ever visited
successful creamery or butter factory,
hence, they are not qualified to judge
of what is best, and have to take the
dictum of the makers. No market
woman was ever known to cry "stink
ing fish" Let us suppose, however,
they meet with fair men and fair
The statesmen are selected
for their glib tongue. and it is not
long before contracts are entered into
with parties who will agree to furnish
everything needful and wait a long
time for their money, prorided good Sc
cmty is given, and a good round in
terest is paid for waiting.
CAS- rule the notes given for the |
outfit are sold at the earliest possible !
date N the nearest bank, or to a con-
money shark, who does
business in the back roOm.)
The next step is tofind an experience
ed expert to run the factory, none of
the farmersare willing to undertake the
job. dot they not want to get rid of this
trouble by establishing the creamery y |!
but if there is one, it is almost certain |
to he the one least qualified for the
position. a renter perhaps, who with
his best efforts has not been able to
make farming pay" or to get few
acres of land to call his own. We
will not question either his honesty or
MS willingness and serious intentions
10 do his best; but he lacksexperience
IN this field, and the loss of a single
lay by incOmpetency or mismanage-
nent will prove serious, and occasion
perhaps the withdrawal of some good
of the company.
Repeated losses of this kind, bills
coming due, the low prices paid for
he product. will cause general dissatis-
action, the disruption of the company
osses to the securities, and hence a
complete failure of the enterprise.
The distance from the farms to the
actory and from the factory to the
ail~ay station or to market, with the
ABILITIES such as refrigerator cars etc.,
must also be taken into consideration.
They are very important items.
Not many months since visited
reamery. Churning by steam power
vas going on. asked the young
nan in charge, now long he churned ,
was surprised when he said about an
lOur and half. 1t seemed to me
hat by 80 much churning every but
er glObule would be broken and the I
'roduct become greasy. / asked ,
bout the temperature of the cream
lie answered about 60 degrees. He {
hen volunteered the remark that {:
1T being August and the weather
7arm, and that they gathered cream
rom farms miles away, he churned
'Owlv, so as to temper the cream. {
low when We remember that to obtain I
II the butter IN the cream, it is ALSO
ltely necessary that the cream be i
omOgeneous THAT is so stirred as to s
e of the same temperature or nature,
ence, We see the necessity for running t
he engine from an hour and half to s
wo hours instead of twenty or thirty ,
linutes: that is all the time it would a
equire on a regular dairy farm. And i
ct the butter was Of fair quality, t
nd destined for the Boston market. q
his leads to the necessity of pure v
WATER AND ICE. a
The temperature of a fresh water e
,ring does not vary much from - 7
aprpaS If we drink tho watar in | 4