The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1893-07-28
THE CREAM SEPARATOR PAYS.
Information Interesting to Both Cream
cry Men ana HIilk Producers.

Information Interesting to Both Croam-
cry Men ANA Milk Producers.
Will some of your contributors enlighten me
on the subject of milk separators2 How many
cows ought one to have to make a separator
profitable? Is tho butter better than that made
in tho old fashioned way if proper care is
takenp
We now have at our dairy school for
the use of students studying farm dairy
ing five kinds of hand separators, any
one of which is good machine and does
its work satisfactorily. We have been
using one separator couple of years,
running it part Of the time with Jersey
bull on two horse tread power. The
bull soon grew to like the work, if we
may judge from his actions. 1t was GER
tainly relief from standing idle all the
time He was especially delighted with
the pail Of warm sLimmilk which the
dairyman gave him to drink at the close
of the Swimming. Our DeLaval Baby
Separator No. 3 runs perfectly smooth
and even with tread power. 1t runs
easily by hand and it is not considered
hard work to skim the milk Of 10 or Is
cows.
First Of all, get a pair Of scales. One
of the better class of spring balances
costing 81 will do. Weigh the milk of
each COW as often as once week, re-
cording the same, so ms to calculate the
yield Of COW for year. Next get a
Babcock milk test. A four bottle ma
chine is large enough and will cost about
50. Use the test first Of all to see bow
closely you are removing the fat from
the milk by your present system. Ana
lyze the full milk as it goes into thep
or cans and then the skimmilk after the
cream has been removed.
Mr. Morrison has been using the Bah
cock test in our farmers institutes this
winter, testing the full milk, skimmilk
and buttermilk brought in by farmers to
the institutes. In great many cases
the skimmilk showed per cent fat left
in the milk, while the full milk showed
about per cent fat-that is, these so
called dairymen were losing % per cent
of all of the fat in their milk. These
farmers had raised the feed, fed it to the
cows, MIXED them and carried the milk
to the house, where, because of improper
handling, 25 per cent Of the fat was lost.
What business but farming can stand
such waste?
AS is said above, use the Babcock test
and see how close you are recovering the
fat by your present system. If you are
losing over two-tenths of per cent fat
in your skimmilk by the present system
and cannot improve upon it, you should
begin at once to seek some other system
of raising or separating cream. With
the hand separators carefully run you
need not lose over one or two-tenths of
per cent fat, the latter being the extreme
limit.
Last year a farmer living near Fond
du Lac, Wis, followed just the plan
have laid down and soon discovered that
he was wasting a great deal of fat. He
then took hand separator on trial and
in a month returned, saying he was
ready to pay for it; that he was milking
IS cows and the hand separator was saw
ing two pounds Of butter day over the
old system; that these two pounds of
butter saved were equal to having two
more COWS in his herd, and since he did
not have to feed, milk or care for these
two he was well satisfied to pay the price
of the separator.
How can farmer who is taking care
of COWS for money and not for fun af-
ford to go along blindly, not knowing
where he is losing the fat which has cost
so much to make, when for So and lit
tie intelligent study he can learn just
where the wastes are and be in position
to check them?
If our inquirer will put the scales in
his barn, get the Babcock test and then
the hand separator if he finds it neces-
sary, as he probably will, will guaran-
tee that he would not take 800 at the
end of one year and go back to his old
practice of working in the dark, as he is
now doing. Henry in Breed
er's Gazette.
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