The Dickinson press., 1895-07-13


It is quite an item with many
dairymen who are rearing well-bred
calves either for service as heads Of
herds or for cow to supply such herds
with first-claSs milking stock, to have
their skim-milk loft to them in the
best possible condition for feeding pur
poses-it being practically impossible
to feed slop and get good results.
Experience teaches Inc some "ery
interesting lessons about skim-milk
for calves. having used it from si,al-
low settings with excellent results.
Then for eighteen months the Cooley
crea furnished Il most excellent
beverage for the growing element Of
my herd, but when our creamery OPEN
ed up we presumed that the separator
would skim somewhat cleaner than
the Cooley system. which we found to
be the case.
For eighteen months calves We're
fed creamery skim-milk. for the first
six months with considerable sue
cess, but as the creamery grew older
and its utensils became worn and
harder to clean, the greater seemed to
he the trouble to get sweet milk home,
and during the month of last March,
when the creamery was run but ev-
cry other day. the milk became so our
that 1t turned TO clabber on the sec.
ond day whenever the temperature
rose to so degrees. The principal DIFF.
ficulty was in the milk not having
proper car before sending it to the
creamery, but one scarcely desires to
begin the same care during winter
months that the summer demands.
One year ago we tried to steriiize i'm.
mediately after separation, but the *.
pertinent did not prove a success from
the fact above mentioned, that the
product that came into the creamery
had not been we'll cared for by being
aerateil or rapidly cooled after drawn
from the cow. Such care cannot be
demanded Mt the hands of every pat
ron, and we presume that this diff.
Guilty occurs with most creameries.
This state Of affairs has been so
much Of a detriment to many patrons
their herds some have gone back to
| SANAA SOOAGyS VI put AL SlI-A SCIJstAI'
tors sc that a supply of fresh skim-milk
and the young calves, and the cream
sent to the creamery to be churned
and marketed.
This brings to mind tile query
whether to buy a separator or creamel
for cows. The creamer where it car
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water of sufficient volume that viii
register close to so degrees is. we con
slider, a very satisfactory investment
and in every way gives nearly perfect
satisfaction. though it may not sep
arate quite SO closely as the separa
tor.
On the other hand, where ice is pu'
up and used to cool water altogether
the cost is materially increased. W.
would say that the annual cost pei
COW would not be less than So to Sc
cure a supply sufficient to run tel
cows. Some better results could b,
gotten out of spring water by cuttins
off when the milk is cooled to the tenn
perature of the water and some ic'
added at probably half the cost where
ice was entirely depended on for cool
ing the milk and raising cream.
This latter plan may be the hes
for a herd of five to eight cows, bu
it seems to us that Il herd of tel
cows, rather than to furnish ice t,
cool their supply of milk, to secur'
perfect satisfaction, q separator woult
serve the best purpose and prObabl.
be the cheapest in the long run. On
feature about the separator shoul,
be taken into consideration, and tina
is its complications, which necessl
tate the presence of II mechanic twic
a day. 1t cannot be handled by n care
less person without danger of eithe
running the machine or doing poo
work. The dairylnan who puts Iii
money into one of these machine
may expect to become Il fixture a
home or pay good wages to some on
who a run it properly.
The creamer does not require one t
be q machinist and the boys can OF
ten be left to run things, without til
boss being always on hand. One grea
advantage to be laid at the door of til
separator is that less handling of mil
is required and 1t can be fed with til
natural heat still in it, which withou
doubt, b better relished by the cal
than If heated tile second time. Don
purchase N expecting to get out Q
work, for there is just where it con
mences. I should hesitate about pun
chasing mi unless l had enough mil
to justify attaching power of som
kind to it,as I know n dairyman VIII
put in a separator in place of q cream
er and had to hire a good, strong han
to turn it.
For some months we have gone bac
to Dill creamer. Instead Of serdin
the whole milk to the creamery til
cream only goes, thereby leaving til
7 skim-milk in a wholesome conditio
for any use desired. We ike til
plan SO much better that it is doubtfr
IL we shall consent to go back t
sending our whole milk.
Our calves could not be depended o
to grow on q mess of sour milk. an,
the family positively rejected til
creamery skinned product as a tabl
beverage. We are not prepared to 81.
that we have not some less in fat. hi
the value Of a clean, sweet, cold mil
for home use where a growing famil,
Of children may enjoy it. pays wei
for the little loss; yet we see no rea
son why the skinned product fror
the hand separator cannot be coole
/. and give nearly as good satisfactio
for house as from the Gtt
t f. Scott in Ohio Farmer.
r The Chinch bug Disease.
!: During the last few years many G,
q periments have been made here an
elsewhere to utilize diseases for figh
d ing some of OH most injurious insect
At the head of the large army Of no,
d ious insects stands the chinch bui