The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1896-11-28
Cream Puffs

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Two OF the greatest difficulties the
managers of cooperative %creaneries have
to contend with is The skim-miik and the
milk test. Patrons will II few Of them
rob their neighbors of their share OF
the milk, and it is the hardest thing in
the world to make II patron understand
that .saaother mans cows give richer
milk and n corresponding higher test OF
butter fat. The first superstition is that
a mistake has been made in testing the
milk or that the one who tests the milk
doesn't know how to DO it, especially he il
happens to be the manager of the cream
cry. We credit the patrons of the Kim
ball creamery with better sense than to
suppose that the manager would have
any object in giving one patron a higher
or lower test than his milk showed. At
the kimball creamery twenty-fOur te SITS
OF the same sample Of milk were made
one day to see how much, if any, varia-
tion there would be and we failed to dis
So'Si OLCNlClilu VI ouS pei SGIt ulllCi-
ence in any Of the tests. So much for
accuracy. 1t happens frequently that,
given two punches OF cows, both pas
tured on the anne feed and apparently
of the sane breed and in the same con
dition, II herd will give a considerable
higher test than Tie other. II by chance
the owners of the respective herds hap
pen to be neighbors the creamery some
times catches the dickens when the
checks are delivered. AS rapidly, how
ever, as the farmers and patrons come to
study into the butter making business,
respect for the Babcock test and conf
dence in the creamery management will
increase. just why there is so great a
variation in the tests Of the same breed
OF cows, cared for the same, nobody
knows. That n great difference does
exist thousands upon thousands Of ex-
periments have fully shown. 1t has also
been fully demonstrated that the gener-
al care of a GOV has more TO do with the
the test shan the feed. In the last issue
al the GRAPHIC we printed an item from
Cow-Cnlture showing that the same COW
would sometimes vary ~ per cent in
butter fat from one day to another with
exactly the same feed and care. At the
last Wisconsin Farmers institute, Mr..
TAYLOR, who had charge Of the Jersey
herd at the worlds fair dairy test, stated
that Brown Bess (the crack COW Of the
herd and the premium COW at tho FAIR
wentS.4 per cent one day and down to
80 the next. Dispute this fact there has
been some fault tinding-mostly con-
fined to the first month-lhe tests at the
Kimball creamery have never varied
over siX-tenths of one per cent as between
different patrons and from one month to
another there has not been a change of
over four-tenths in any individuals
milk-eXcept for the better. To show
how milk varies even when tested by
experts we append the following from
the Omaha World Herald. There is a
difference in some cases of fully two pei
cent, or twenty tenths. If their milk
was taken to a creamery, and 20 cents
the price paid for four per cent milk
some would receive only 90 cents pei
hundred, while others would get 81
Some of the Omaha milk dealers evident.
ly sell considerable water Or they have
awful poor cows. Here is the milk in,
spector's report:
Tho following is the report of thu
milk test for the month of September.
The figures indicate the per centage o
butter fat contained in the samples o
milk collected from the milk dealers il
this city.
The milk law passed by the 25th gen
eral assembly required pounds of but
ter fat to 100 pounds of milk if Offered
for sale: