The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1897-11-17
Separators on the Farm.

OF farm separatOrS Dy klnuly answering inc
1. Is the farm separator a success in its
placer
q What is its place?
g. What are the advantages in It's use?
A. What objectional features are there in
| its use7
8. Do you know Of any places, localities
| or individuals that have discarded their use.
| 6. II so, for what reasons?
Any information you can give us on that
subject will be greatly appreciated.
| J.M.H.
Nashua, Iowa
ANSWER BY MIR. GOULD.
l. 1t is generally believed that the
farm separator has already in it's his
tory, passed the experimental and ar
gumentative stage, and been adopted
in principle-as the most perfect an
swer to the question, "How shall the
cream of the dairy farm be securedP"
There is no doubt of its success. The
only point of serious import IL this:
Where a man has good facilities for
raising cream by cold, deep setting and
the dairy herd is small, the item of first
cost of equipment may play some part
In the matter, and it may be argued
that little loss may be profitably in
Cured in Dreaming by gravity, as COM
pared with the 800 outlay of the sep
arator. In the hands of many, and
everything favorable, deep, cold set
ting has closely approached the work
of the separators in thoroughness but
in nine other cases, the results were
below comparison. True, poor work
can be done with separator, but less
probably, as the milk in the farm dairy
will be separated fresh from the cow,
and is as a rule about in perfect condi-
ton as carried from the stable and put
into the separator tank, and 30 needs
no preparation to be in the right con-
ditioD. If the speed of the machine is
maintained, and the adjustments are
all right, the Dreaming of milk need
not be wasteful, and the milk will show
but the slightest trace of fat.
2. l believe that the separator has
its place in every well-regulated farm
dairy house. The fault with the greater
part of the farm butter is result OF de-
lay and faulty Dreaming of the milk,
and as the cream of fresh milk as it
comes from the separator is almost
faultless, it needs no argument to prove
that any device which will deliver pure,
faultless cream to the maker, has half
solved the question of how to attain TO
fine farm butter.
3. Despatch is one of the prime ad-
vantages of using the separator. The
good milk ia, without being contami-
mated in any way, creamed in it's best
estate, and gives correspondingly fine
cream. The old objection was that
separator cream did not give a fine
grain and flavor to the resulting butter
as gravity-raised cream, but this is now
answered by inventive genius, which
has discovered that the two creams in
question have different constitutions
and need churning differently, and the
cream to be cared for on different
plan. Separator cream needs "ripen-
ing" and the starter answers this OBJ
lection, and churning at much lower
temperature gives the desired grain.
Cream raised by old methods became
thoroughly inoculated by the germs
and bacteria of acidity, while the sepa-
rator cream was not subjected. The
use of fresh, sour milk to the separator
cream promotes the sort and form of
ferment needed, and lower temperature
when churning is in harmony with the
object sought. AS well argue that good
bread can be made every time by ex-
posing the dough to the air as can be
secured by the using of yeast, which is
only bread starter after all.
4. The Objectionable features to its
use are, the work of turning the crank
and sticking to it from forty minutes to
an hour, and 80 relieving the good wife
of all the trouble of washing pans, cans
and milk things generally. The cost
has been somewhat against their use,
but 80 good an authority as Mr.. G. p.
Goodrich of Wisconsin estimates that
taking everything into consideration, a
separator will pay for itself in one sea-
son where twenty cows are kept. If
one has cheap power of some kind, a
colt, heifer or the bull may, with suit
able governor to the machine, supply
the "motive" for running the separa-
tor, and the real objection Immediately
disappears. Now that the separator
has been greatly simplified, its cost re-
duced to fair price, and the character
of its cream studied into and how to
handle 1t made more clear, l do not
think that there is any valid objection
that can be made to stand, though of
course men will assert and argue to the
contrary, as some will against all pro-
gress and improvement.
8. do not know of any man who
has given the separator trial who has
not been convinced that it was great
success. know of separators that are
not used all the time, as here in this To-
cality city milk, and even creamery
prices, seem to warrant selling milk in
preference to butter making at certain
seasons of the year, and the machines
lie idle The great senaratOre in q
creamery near me are standing still for
the reason that there is more money in
city milk just now than in butter; but
the owner is strong separator man.
That separators are continually being
purchased, and all criticism of separa-
tor butter has vanished, is good proof
OF the value of the separators on the
farms, and their general popularity.
6. have no material out of which
an answer in the nature of objections
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