Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1897-09-17
a QUESTION:.
which Is Finally Cheaper. Separator or
Deep Setting CrcamerS

which Is Finally Cheaper, Separator or
Deep Setting croamer7
First, let us look at the cost Of the
different outfits. The price list Of u
creamor for 90 cows is 500, and for
farm separator large enough for that
number Of COWS, $l25. There perhaps
can DO come discount obtained from
these prices, but we will figure from
the prices as the manufacturer gives
Them. Here is 500 against The separator,
Tho creamor will last many years. The
separator, from the nature Of things
viii not last so long Just how long
separator will last and how much it can
do when properly taken care of before
giving out may be hard to determine.
One hus been run on our farm five years
with the expense of but 50 for repairs
aud small amount yearly for oil and
rubber rings. We know OF one that has
been run nearly six years in dairy of
30 to 60 COWS, and it is pretty good
machine yet. We do not propose TO try
to figure out the cost of using separn-
tor for given numbcr Of cows for
year, but the facts we give may aid
others 10 have some basis to figure from.
If the separator is used, there will be
| tho additional expense Of power. With
| us this was not much, for We used a two
! horse tread power that we had before
| we got the separator and used for cut
ting feed, filling silo, saving wood, etc.
! This power was operated by n Jersey
| bull. He worked very nicely, and the
exercise was just what no needed. Some
use u small tread power which costs SO
or $40 and use large dog, sheep or
goat to run it.
Now, after we have considered the
| extra cost Of using n separator, let us
geo how much. if auy, gain there will
| be reasonable chance Of making
| Some more butter can be made by using
the separator, because the skimming can
be done closer than in any other way.
The best work that has ever been
| done, taking season through, with
any deep cold setting, as far as wo have
any record of experiment station work,
| is where the loss in skimmills was as
low as one-fourth of l per cent of fat.
Tho usual loss is, of course, much more
than this. Tho separator takes nearly
| all, SO that with the best OF work done
by ouch method the separator would
save at least onc.tlfth of pound Of
buttor from each 100 pounds of milk
more than the creamery. If COW
gave 5000 pounds of milk in a year,
this would be 10 pounds Of butter, 100
pounds from 10 COWS and $50 pounds
from 20 cows, At 20 cents pound for
the butter this would make 500 year.
Besides this there would be saving of
work. 1t is less work to separate the
milk and clean the separator than to
set and skim the milk where deep set
ting is used, though where everything
is arranged for convenience this may
} not amount to much.
Where the skimmilli is to be fed to
calves 1t must bo warmed when cold
setting is used, but when the separator
is used the work is done while the mill
, is warm from the COW, and if fed i'm
mediately needs no warming.
One point is worthy of being taker
into consideration when the question
as to which method OF Dreaming mill
is to bo used, and it is q point that il
seldom raised when this subject is be
ing considered, and that is the breed O
cows that produces the milk. 1t is
we'll established fact that those breed
Of cows that give large quantities o
milk containing comparatively small
per cent Of butter fat give milk il
which the fat globules are small; there
fore the Dreaming is not as exhaustiy,
by the gravity process as with the mill
of other breeds which give richie
milk with larger fat globules. Tho sep
arator creams all milk alike or noarl.
, so.
5 The loss with the milk of these larg
milking breeds would be much NOR
, than with tho others, both ON acooun
of the larger per cent of fat lett in tn
l slimmilk and ON account Of the large
: amount Of il.
= One other point we viii mention
g The most exhaustive churning is ha
when tho cream is very rich. With col
8 setting it is thin, containing not NOR
/, than 30 per cent tat and rarely as muC
d MS thut. while with the separator j
may be made to contain 30 per cent t
s 40 per cent and yet do close sAimmmg
o --uuard's Dairyman,