The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1897-06-05
Cream Puffs

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Worry few patrons of the creamery find
/ convenient TO be present when the
mix IS Tested, aati as it is TO them Il OF
The most important things connected
the business, the mode ut operation
viii be OF particular interest. The sam m
PIES Of milk taken daily are kept in one
half pint alright glass jars. Each pa
iron has his w jar. When IL patron
bringing milk Il small quantity
OF corrosive snblimate is placed N n jar
numbered 10 correspond with the patrons
number lita which is placed ii daily
sanpla OF his milk until The same is
tested. Tie poison Keeps the milk from
turning sorr. When Tie milk is about
to he t'sted The jar is gently rotated, or
its contents turned back and fourth into
another receptacle, until the cream and
milk are thoroughly mixed. With a long
glass tube, called a pippette, a certain a.
mount of milk, not quite an ounce, is
drawn from the composite sample
and placed in the test bottle. The
test bottles have long necks, about
the size OF a lead pencil, upon which are
the graduating marks. To the sample
in the test bottle Is added about the
same amount OF snlphuric acid meas.
ured in a graduate made for the purpose.
The milk and acid are gently agltated
until the milk is thoroughly dissolved
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in the acid. The Babcock test machi e
is a centrifugal machine operated by
steam. The II in the Kimball cream
cry holds "a bottles. Tie test bottles
are placed in the machine and revolved
at a high rste of speed for five minutes.
Boiling hot water is then added to the
acid and milk up to the neck of the bot
tie and the machine set in motion one
minute longer. Then more hot water
is added until the entire contents rise
about half way UP the neck of tho bottles
and the machine set in motion for an
other minute. This completes the test.
The butter fat will be found standing
clearly marked in the neck of the bottle
and the amount read by the graduating
marks thereon. The tests are always
taken with the greatest Of care and SO
recorded and without the operator know.
+, ing whose milk he is testing. At the
Kimball creamery one day twenty-f0ul
!, tests were made from the same patrons
, milk and not the slightest variation
was discovered in any of them. So much
f for accuracy, as between patron and pa
trOn.
A new patron Of the creamery said tt
, the manager a few days ago that he had
heard that a %neighboring creamery re
' ceived more for its butter last season
than the Kimball factory-but that h,
did not believei it He showed his goo,
y sense in not crediting such idle talk
The kimball creamery isn't doing bust
a ness in that way. Its product ha
brought the highest market price 70
4 strictly fancy butter from the very frs
Il shipment, and frequently a little better
as a comparison OF its books with III
q market report for the past year will
q show. Nearly every daily and metropo
olitan weekly paper coming into thi
county contains the market reports an
by looking at the New York quotation
' it is easy for a patron to see Just VIVA
- butter is selling for-and when he look
= 1t up he can bet his bottom dollar tina
" the highest quoted price is that receive
=. by the kimball creamery. The manage
OF the creamery has a personal acluain
y tauce with the managers of most of TIL
important creameries OF the state
= few OF which make premium butter
and Is in constant communication witt
them. He knows when they ship tllei
butter, to whom and the price, yield G
the factory per hundred pounds OF mil
~ and the operating expenses. He make
" 1t his business to know this in order t
. draw comparisons. He not only make
. himself familiar with the workings o
= the creameries Of this state, but ha
every facility of ascertaining just wha'
G the factories in Wisconsin, Iowa an,
r Minnesota are doing. lie has yet t
b. to find Onc which upon the same volum
OF business has paid the price for mil
that our own factory has. This tells ii
own story,
Tie manager of the Kimball creamer
Invites questions from DatrOns-nrpspn