The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-12-02
BABY SEPARATOR

Mr.. Editor:-Will some one who has
a baby creaner tell US how big chore
it is to run through, say 400 pounds of
milk? Can anybody turn it right?
Mr.. B. p Norton, in giving his per-
sonal experience on the subject Of
hand separation before the Iowa Dairy
association, said that his No. 2 separa-
tor separated 800 pounds of milk per
hour, and in reply to an inquiry as to
whether it was hard work to turn it
by hand. said it was about as hard as
turning a tanning mill or churn. or any
thing of that kind. Anyone can do IT
who can and will turn steadily. Mr..
Norton's paper on this subject con-
veys so much information from the
standpoint of actual experience on the
farm that we herewith reproduce it
entire:
1 think the baby separator capable
of doing its own talking if only given
a chance. If any man milking ten or
more COWS would take one home and
give it a trial, it would convince him,
quicker than anything 1 might say,
that he could not afford to do without
one. I live on a small farm near Cres-
co, and have made dairying a speciality
on that farm for the last fifteen years,
milking from twenty to thirty cows
each year and making my own butter.
I used the Cooley creamer and sub
merged the milk in ice water until one
year ago last March I bought a No.
3 Baby separator, and it has not failed
to skim the milk twice a. day since that
time. [ turned the separator by hand
for about two months, and then ar
ranged to run it with my three-horSe
tread power, using one horse or a colt
on the power. When we get five or
six cows MIXED the separator is start
ed and the milk is run through as tast
as drawn from the cows AS soon as
we are through milking the skinned
milk is fed 10 the pigs and calves, so
THAT when the last of the milk 10
through the separator it is nearly all
fed out There is no trouble to raise
good calves on separator milk If fed
while the animal heat is in it. | have
raised fine calves on separator milk,
corn ensiIage and hay, with no gram
except that contained in the enSlIaSe-
When I commenced using the sepdI-
ator 1 was milking twenty-eiSht COWS
snd MAILING twenty-five pounds Of but
ter per day. The cows were nearly all
fresh in the fall ana had been MIXED
all winter. The first month that used
| the separator 1 averaged thirty POUNDS
a dav R11vir1g the separator was equal
10 adding five COWS TO my nerd, which
I did not have to be fed or MIXED.
| If we are to compete with our nelgh-
| bcrs in the dairy business we must
have a dairy COW, she must have a
/ GOOD warm barn and have all she needs
Ito eat and drink. We must have silos.
so she may have plenty of good corn
! ensiIage the year round. We must
nave a separator on the farm, 50 We
can get all the butter fat out OF the
mil, in the best possible shape for
fan5ino n1Irp0ses. IF not we will find
when we come to foot I'D at the end
of the year that we are not in the
VIII While Mr.. Norton testifes that he
tdid run the separator by hand for two
months. and 50 far as is shown dld
good work with it, it equalI5nS an az
5i+ian of five cows that did not need to
he either fed or MIXED, yet az the end
of two months ne found 1t more desir-
| a bIe to use the power he describes.