The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1896-05-07

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CONDENSED from Farmers Review
stenographic report Of the Iowa dairy
mems convention.)
F. A. Leighton spoke on the subject
Of the bacteria discovered by Professor
Conn and named by him No. II. A
company had been organized that had
for some time been sending out these
cultures. which sometimes proved q
success, but not always. He believed
that q culture should be used whether it
be this one or some other. B. Al would
do the work well IL it were used cor
rectly. In preparing the starter he had
found that cream was a better medium
than milk.
Q.-Must cream be Pasteurized in or
der to use this culture!
Any cream is not, though it might
give better results if the cream were
thus treated.
Q.-Do you Pasteurize your cream to
make your starter in the first place?
Ayes. sir; that is, separator cream.
Mr.. Lawson-In my case B. Al gave
me or cents extra per pound for my
butter.
A Creameryman-I used COINS bac-
terra for three weeks in July. I intrust-
ed the making Of the starter to my
butter maker. He is man Of decided
purpose, and he was much opposed to
using the cultures. However, he got
out two patches Of very good butter
and then it got worse than it was before
he used any cultures. was rot salts
fed with the trials, as l believed the
bacteria to be all right. About the
10th of September We tried it again,
and with better success.
Mr.. Monrad-I would like to hear
from other people that have been US
ing the cultures.
Mr.. Smith, have had three tubes Of
cultures that were not fit to go into any
cream, and l would like to know what
was the matter.
Mr.. Henderson-We are running four
creameries and we have used the cul-
ture in one creamery for six weeks.
We are trying to find out il there is
do us some good. We are making the
best butter in the creamery where We
are using it. will not say that it is
the best thing in the world, but I will
say 1t is good thing where it is right
ly used. To have it a success the con-
ditions must be just right, but that
fact is nothing against the bacteria.
A number OF others spoke on the
above subject, relating their expert
ences for and against it. These, how
ever, were not conclusive as TO its
value, as no experiments by the cream
cry men had been conducted on scien-
tific basis and so many other factors
were allowed to come in that it was
impossible to tell whether the success
and failures were due to the cultures CT
thought the culture preparation was
spoiled when they received it, others
thought that the successes were due
more to the fact that more pains had
been taken in securing good cream and
handling it carefully and that such
methods would give good butter any
way, cultures or not.
Mr.. Moody said he wanted to correct
the impression that the Conn bacteria
was starter, as 1t was nothing of the
kind. Mr. Monrad objected to this state
ment of the case. and said that the
Conn bacteria was starter. and that
he had made it, using skimmilk in
stead of cream as a medium.
Mr.. harrington said that they had
been experimenting with it at the Madi-
son station, but had succeeded in max
ing no better butter with it than with
other starters. Cleanliness and correct
methods were essential to good butter
making, and when the conditions were
all right good butter could be made.