Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1897-08-26
A QUESTION:.
which Is Finally Cheaper, Separator or
Deep Setting Dreamer?

Which Is Finally Cheaper, Separator or
Deep Setting Dreamer?
First, let us look at the cost Of the
different outfits. The price list Of a
creamer for % cows is $50. and for
farm separator large enough for that
number of COWS, $125. There perhaps
can be some discount obtained from
these prices, but we will figure from
the prices as the manufacturer gives
them. Here is $50 against the separator.
The dreamer will last many years. The
separator. from the nature Of things,
will 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 has been run on our farm five years
with the expense of but So for repairs
and small amount yearly for oil and
rubber rings We know of one that has
been run nearly six years in dairy of
| 90 to so COWS. and it is pretty good
machine yet. We do not propose to try
to figure out the cost of using separa-
tor for a given number of cows for a
year, but the facts we give may aid
others to have some basis to figure from.
If the separator is used, there will be
the additional expense of power. With
us this was not much, for we used two
horse tread power that we had bafore
we got the separator and used for cut
ting feed, filling silo, saving wood, etc.
| This power was operated by Jersey
bull. He worked very nicely, and the
exercise was just what he needed. Some
use small tread power which costs $40
or $40 and use large dog, sheep or
| goat to run it.
Now, after we have considered the
extra cost of using separator, let us
see how much, if any, gain there will
be a reasonable chance of making.
Some more butter can be made by using
| the separator, because the Swimming can
! be done closer than in any other way.
I The best work that has ever been
done. taking a season through, with
any deep cold setting, as far as we have
any record of experiment station work..
is where the loss in skimmilk was as
low as one-fourth of 1 per cent of fat.
The usual loss is, of course, much more
than this. The separator takes nearly
all, so that with the best of work done
by each method the separator would
save at least one fifth of a pound of
butter from each 100 pounds of milk
more than the creamery If COW
gave 1000 pounds of milk in a year,
this would be 10 pounds of butter, 100
pounds from 10 COWS and $50 pounds
from % cows At 20 cents pound for
the butter this would make 500 year.
Besides this there would be saving of
work It 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 skimmilk is to be fed to
calves it must be warmed when cold
setting is used, but when the separator
is used the work is done while the milk
is warm from the COW, and if fed i'm
mediately needs no warming
One point is worthy of being taken
into consideration when the question
as to which method of Dreaming milk
is to be used, and it is a point that is
seldom raised when this subject is be-
| ing considered, and that is the breed of
COWS that produces the milk. 1t is
we'll established fact that those breeds
of cows that give large quantities of
milk containing comparatively small
per cent of butter fat give milk in
| which the fat globules are small; there
fore the Dreaming is not as exhaustive
| by the gravity process as with the milk
of other breeds which give a richer
milk with larger fat globules. The sep
arator creams all milk alike or nearly
So
The loss with the milk of these large
milking breeds would be much more
than with the others, both on account
of the larger per cent of fat left in the
skimmilk and on account of the larger
amount of it.
One other point we will mention.
The most exhaustive churning is had
when the cream is very rich. With cold
setting it is thin, containing not more
than 90 per cent fat and rarely as much
as that, while with the separator it
may be made to contain 80 per cent to
40 per cent and yet do close Swimming
-Hoard's Dairyman