The Newtown bee., 1894-05-11
Live Farm Topics,
ABY-PRoDUCT OF THE CREAMERY.

Skim milk is of great importance not l so much in scientific way as resource | for the creamery. It is a by-prOduct | just as bran and shorts are for the miller |
 in making his flour, or coke and coal tar | for the manufacturer of gas, and cotton l seed for the grower of cotton, with that | difference that these last named by-prod- | ucts can be stored away and sold to the best advantage without danger of deter ioration, where our skim milk is of a very perishable nature; it cannot be stored away but must be sold, used up or given away, as the case may be, in or der to realize anything out of it. Were all the creameries situated near milk sugar refinery, as I know of some creameries ip the state of New York,
 where the skim milk as well as the whey is conducted through pipes to the sugar 1 factory, or were the creameries all loca- ted near large cities, the skim milk prob
 lem would be solved. This not being
 the case,it devolves on us to devise some
 plan to utilize this by-product to the
 best advantage.
 First of all we should educate our pa
 irons as to the real value of the skim milk as a feed, and to teach thenf to
 properly use it as a feed. The reason that skim milk is not as liberally used in some localities as in others, is because some one by an excessive and improper use has killed some pigs and calves and
 they do not want it. By my own exper-
 fence find that as feed for hogs it is
 of great value. I have also found that
 were 1t not for the objectionable features
 of hog lot adjoining creameryor hav-
 ing your butter maker or helper to at
 tend the hogs, it would pay better to feed up the skim milk yourself than to sell it.
 In regard to feeding hogs there is. no
 danger of overfeeding with milk, provid- ing they have bone and muscle to hold , ID the fat you put on them. Hence pigs say from % to 100 lbs. weight must have } enough other feed to furnish substance { for bone. Should those pigs be fed too much milk they would invariably [ break down, and this trouble would Dc } called in many cases wrongfully kidney i worm."
 It is often said that no good calves { could be raised on skim milk, but this
 has proven false as there are plenty just , as good calves brought up on skim mlll f as those are that follow the COW. The ! skim milk fed to calves, is just the same 3 as it comes from the cow, less the fai ! which must be substituted and fed regn
 larly.
 I Having shown our patrons the value r of the skim milk they will in all proba- . IDfIlbYs 4uS6 ib kJuOuIu yOu AOW' l ever, not have been successful in con , vincing them of these facts, and should , you have no stock of your own to feed you will soon get some experience. We , all know that the average Kansas far mer, whether he is patron of a cream : Iery or not. has an eye for business. He ; will watch your skim milk tank or cis- , tern and when it is full you do not want , it to run over and leave bad smell , around the creamery. You will either
 have to give him the skim milk for five
 or ten cents barrel, or be glad if he 3 does not see fit to pay for it to have him i haul it away for nothing. l hope this
 particular farmer is no patron of any : creamery, because if he is and issnot will , ling to pay you for the skim milk some.
 where near what it is worth he stands ir , his own light, and you better test his i milk every time he brings any, or not
 buy it at all.
 have been steadily trying to utilize , skim milk. Among other things the idea struck me to make Koumys, 3 very , wholesome drink for invalids. Instead : of fermenting the stertilized sweetened skim milk with yeast, I charged 1t with , carbonic acid gas and bottled it with 2 : machine in ounce bottles. The pre-
 paration was favored andlit made an ex
 celIent Kansas beverage. thought
 had bonaza, having been able to hold Y this milk so charged and bottled sweet t for ten days, when to my sorrow on tht , eleventh day noticed the liquid chang : ling to a jelly and my expectations of 2