The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1895-09-18
Travelling Dairles.

Mr.. N. H. Egleston has recently
been in communication with Prof.
Jas. w. Robinson, dairy commission
er of Canada, regarding the 'Travel-
ing dairies,'' which have been in op-
Grafton in that country for some time.
In view of the recent agitation of the
subject of dairies in this State by the
News and Courier and the Sunday
News the topic is one Of interest. MIR.
Egleston said yesterday:
Canada seems rather distant, cold
place to 20 to for ideas that should be
helpful in this State, but remember
ing what wonderful results had come
to the dairying interests of that coun-
try through the education given the
farmers by means of their travelling
dairies," I wrote to Prof. Jas. W.
Robertson, dairy commissioner, for
exact information, and have been ia
vored with very full set Of reports,
from which I quote. With a view of
improving the standard of Canadian
butter the Dominion Government un-
dertook some years ago to give every
one of its farmers the chance of learn
inc practically how to make the best
quality of butter. AS it was impossi-
BILE to bring all the farmers and their
wives to the dairy stations it was de-
cided to send teachers through the
country, right among the farmers,
with all necessary apparatus to illus
trate every operation. A competent
instructor and a practical butter maker
were given.the following outfit An
eight-bottle Babcock milk tester, with
necessary accompaniments to make
tests Of milk F; barrel churn, a tin
lined water tank, a No. lever butter
worker, >oue-pound butter printer,
parchment butter paper for covering
prints, refrigerator butter box Of
forty-eight pounds capacity, weighing
scales, cream can, deep-setting cans:
dairy thermometers, good supply of
dairy salt, wooden ladies', dippers,
moulds for printing the butter, etc.
These are all loaded into a covered
wagon, and with a good team or horses
taken from town to town. During one
season one of these travelling dai-
ries" covered route of 2,057 miles
and held meetings at Isl different
places.
The plan of working these travel
ing dairies" is to arrange before hand,
along the routes they are to take, with
the officers of the farmers Institutes,
to have the day and hour of the meet
ing in each town we'll advertised, gen.
orally 2 p. m. was the hour chosen.
Arrangements were also previously
made to have a sufficient quantity of
ripened cream delivered at the hour
of meeting.
When the wagon arrived all the out
fit was unpacked and set up in work
ing order in the place chosen for the
meeting. The process of butter
making was begun at once and while
the butter maker was engaged in
transforming the cream into golden
creamery" butter, the instructor ex-
planned each process, clearly illustra-
ting his remarks by the work progress
ing before them. Especial attention
was called to the superiority of the
swing and barrel churns over the old
dash churns, the people were shown
the "granulated" butter as it began
to separate, and they watched with
keen interest the new method of
washing" ~out the buttermilk instead
Of squeezing it out as in the old way.
Samples we're given them to taste and