Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1893-1895, 1894-08-21
72slEsSSsslslTEY ,iIE
''-'f'@-H> >ssstss72*S
PURE WATER FOR oREAMeRles.
Is That Well Near Your Butter Faetory
Uontaminated7

Is That Well Near Your Butter Factory
Uontaminated7
Who shall say that the season so far
has not been prosperous one for dairy.
men? They have not had to assign any.
way, and it doesn't look as If they would
be forced to the wall in that respect
not while their cows give milk, at least.
Out in Illinois was panied to find the
same old custom in vogue that is preva-
lent in the dairy region of New York..
e., that of pasturing the cows in the aft
ermath of the meadows. Some day !
hope to see dairymen come to their senses
in this respect and have due regard for
the sacredness of meadows, but fear
that they will not change their ways un-
til they have been made TO suffer more
financially than now by letting the cows
have the run of the farm.
The big fodder corn that they raise ont
west they feed in abundance to cattle at
this season, and it has its usual effect in
booming the milk yield. There is none
of this pale, spindling corn either, re-
sulting from its being sown thickly to-
gether, but it is dark green, rank and
stocky of growth, every cane fully de-
veloped. That is the kind that yields
milk when it passes through the digest
i've system of the COW.
AS stood in a model butter factory
yesterday and saw the ripening cream in
a vat in which hoated pieces of ice,
thought that there was some difference
between the quality of this cream and
that taken from loppered milk in the
home dairy. No wonder that there is
difference i'll the price of butter between
the two.
thought again that this cream in the
vat at the butter factory was the mix
ture of the yield of several hundred cows,
while in the home dairy the yield of not
over dozen or fifteen cows would be
represented. The chances were that the
original purity of the cream from 10
COWS was greater than that from 300,
as no doubt great many diseased ones
existed in such an aggregation. What
pity then that the nice mode of manu-
facture in vogue in the creamery did not
obtain in every individual dairy!
Buttermilk is becoming favorits
drink with people living near creameries
When fresh, it is both refreshing and
healthful. Dairymen find the skinned
milk as it comes from the separator at
invaluable food for swine. Although
many could get more for their milk at
the shipping stations, they prefer to
patronize butter factory and get the
SKINNED milk back to put into pick de-
velopment. being assured that the latter
pays better.
/ have often heard of sand in sugar,
but never heard of it in butter until the
other day. A new well had been put
down at a creamery, and the water used
therefrom to wash the butter was full II
quicksand. The quicksand remained
with the butter, and the loss to the pa
irons was $40, for which they were in no
wise to blame this time.
By the way, l had rather have butter
washed with pure water charged with
clean quicksand than to have ii washed
with water into which had drained dee
terious substances. This subject of
pure water for creameries is of deep i'm
portance, for the butter itself is washed
with it in an unsterilized state.
At half of the creameries the wants Of
the plant are supplied from wells con-
tiguous to the buildings, from which
there arises suspicion that filthy drain.
age contaminates them. Where there
is the least suspicion Of impurity the
water snould first be sterilized and then
reduced to the proper temperature b!
ice for washing butter.-George Z.
Newell in American Cultivator.