The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-10-07
That C0lOred Creamery.

This article is a sequel to the one
printed in the WATCHMAN of Septem.
Der entitled Taught by His Uncle. .
John Gould, in recent issue of the
Ohio Farmer, gives quite an overdrawn,
cotored up picture of an imaginary
creamery and its unqualified operator.
There may be some such creameries in
existence, but thank our stars they die
young, before they have slain their
thousands. Professor Harrington, in
HodrdS Ddtryman, gives full descrip-
ton OF one of these colored creameres,
little unlike Mr.. Gould's mythical plant,
where the wisdom of the uncle pre-.
coded and later superseded. Both of
these gentlemen, perhaps, added q mite
to the well earned history of these
creameries, and, in their haste to con-
denim, painted little ungenerously the
epitaph which they designed should at
an early date stand at the tomb of all
such enterprises.
What truly astonishes me is that
young men attempting to operate
creameries without proficiency of
knowledge in the art of butter-making
do not make extraordinary efforts out
side the hours of actual labor in per
forming their duties, in securing facts
and reading experiments and trying the
same for their own Advancement. |
am fully persuaded that any bright
young man, who has had no other in.
structions than given him by his uncle
can take up the work, even in Mr..
Gould's awful imaginary plant, and
bring 1t out Of chaos and make it a
credit to himself and the community
that may patronize it, provided the
proper equipments are t.ere to perform
the work.
There my have been good reasons
why the uncle may have been back
number in creamery work and enter
prise, but to-day the young man who
Tails to succeed as a butter maker is
either dolt or drone, and deserves
to be branded as such. Atan expense
OF less that $40 year an operator can
swim in dairy and creamery literature
contributed by the brightest men and
women that this and other countries
have produced, who have been success
full in the work they write about.
Twice within month | was in a
creamery that had been operated by
man who learned what he knew by
few weeks work under a proficient
butter-maker | maintain that he could
have attained information by persistent
study and experiments to carry him
through TO success if every moment of
time had been occupied in efforts to
surmount obstacles.
Self-conceit is too often mistaken for
w hn sc Al.
hence no knowledge is gained, but the
fellow finds out too late that the
" stuffin'" has been knocked out of
him, and while he hauls in for repairs,
The other fellow pulls in and begins to
tone things up, as was done in this in
stance. Things looked clean. The
hand twenty-bOttle tester was converted
into turbine one by steam, 80 that
there was always a hot test. A huge
fan constructed on an inch iron pipe,
at trifling expense, was mounted to
the ceiling and run with a cheap belt
made from scraps picked up about the
creamery. A pulley placed on the
throttle at the engine and another near
the separator, carrying a cheap rope,
enabled the inventive operator 10 con-
troll the speed of his engine without
running to the engine room, or to stop
it at will.
A strip of zinc leading from the door
OF the operating room to the boiler kept
his feet clean while firing, and was
washed off in a minute with pail of
water. Instead of carrying back a grist
OF SCOT, ashes and coal dust on the bot
tom OF wet feet, this fellow made his
head save his back and muscle.
The office was rugged up with desk
and writing materials, on which lay
several dairy and creamery papers,
along with magazines of the highest
order, and hammock to read and rest
in after work hours. For this young
man we predict prosperous future,
for we failed to see any of the danger
ous class of bacteria floating in at the
open door, that worried Brother Gould
30 much when on his tour to his uncle's
out-of-date creamery, for the butter in
his typical factory would be delight
IN any table. C. E. Scott, in Ohio
Farmer.