The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-01-05
THE DAIRY.
DAIRY EXPERIMENTS.

Correspondence of the Progressive Farmer.
While the writer would by no means
ignore some of the results obtained af
experiment stations or at agricultural
schools, he has always believed every
farm can be made and should be made
an experiment station. So far as dairy
ing is concerned, this is especially true,
because almost any experiment. with
milk and its products can be conducted
quite as satisfactorily in farm dairy
house as in a laboratory. Farmers
should cultivate the habit Of thinking
and xperimenting.
w. T. HotaliDg, South Bethlehem,
Albany county, New York, progress.
i've farmer and dairyman, wrote me
several interesting letters during 1895
and 1896, but time was not found tllI
now to use extracts from them. In
this letter extracts taken from some of
them will illustrate the points referred
to in preceding paragraph. In let
ter received from Mr.. Hotaling under
date of April %, 1895, he wrote:
There has been one separator pur-
chased in this locality, but do not
think they will come into general use
among farmers keeping five to 25 cows.
or perhaps even a greater number Of
COWS.
''The lecturers sent out by the State
Agricultural Society recommend thu
separator, claiming better results from
it than could be obtained by practiCing
the cold deep setting or Swedish sys
tenn Of cream raising,
''At the institute held in our Grange
hall March 16, the question box con
tanned a question as to which was the
better method of getting the cream.
and Of course they-the lecturers said
separator. ! made enquiry whether Is
was possible to get out of thing moro
than was in it. and read from printed
matter showing from tests made that
there was practically no loss from tho
cold deep setting or Swedish system
when properly practiced. They had
to admit that where the portable cream
cry YVES used and the Swedish system
properly practiced, practically all the
cream was secured"
Under date of December 30th, 1895,
Mr. Hotaling wrote: ~
1--WE had good attendance at the
farmers institute and much interest
was manifested. One of the speakers
was rather young man, a graduate
of Cornell University, very positive in
his statements. He made the statement
that any old separator was preferable
to a creamery and was rather reckless
in some of his other assertions. After
he got through asked him if the Bah
cock test would show the amount OF
butter fat left in the skim milk He
said it would, and that it would show
a loss of S. per COW wherever a cream
cry was used. cited some instances
where the skim milk from q creamery
had been tested and not more than one
tenth of one per cent. Of butter fat
found"
April 9Th, 1896, Mr.. Hotaling wrote
I'VE have tested our skim milk with
a Babcock tester) and find we got praO-
tically all the butter fat there is in it.
Mr.. Hotaling uses portable creamery
and practices the Swedish system.
With no disposition to disparage
either the lecturer sent out by the New
York State Agricultural Society or the
young graduate from Cornell UniveP-
sity, the writer will venture the opin-
ion that Mr.. Hotaling had quite asmuch
practical knowledge of butter making
and subjects incident to it as the two
professors. Let every farm be in a
certain sense an experiment station
and then agriculture will prosper.
E. w. MOsELEY.
Clinton, Iowa.
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