Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1897-03-11
To Patrons Of the Blue Grass Creamery.

DEAR FRIENDS.-We have now started
on another seasons work in the dairy bu-
siness and it is my desire to see every
effort to build up one of the best paying
industries in our land. The factory system
is cooperating for the protection OF farmers
fare for daily bread. The women on the
farm are relieved, not only of great deal
of work, but better prices are obtained,
partially on account of greater skill and
better machinery employed, partially on
account of the greater uniformity of the
product. The real success Of the creamery
delivering milk until every patron is i'm
bued with this spirit. There will always
OF of the ae
operative spirit let me tell the story of an
Italian peasant: They had to pay tithes
to their priests of wine and on the day of
delivery the custom was to empty the Jars
into large hogshead in the cellar. When
the priest went to draw wine it was all
If put in water it will not be felt in such
large hogshead, Before the introduct-
ion of the Babcoc2 test there were many
reasoned like those Italian peasants and
delivered water instead of niilk-or skim
med milk This watering or skinning is,
ey out of a general fund. What is far worse
is the delivering of poor. tainted milk
the patrons but steals the reputation of
the factory. The milk of one teat of one
liberated COW may seriously affect the
quality of four or five hundred pounds of
butter, and so may lack of cleanliness in
one small dairy; and not until one and all
OF the patrons learn to understand their
individual responsibility to their co-part-
ners will the factory system give the full
benefits obtainable,
Whatever ourr. work may be let us take
the meanest work we'll done than the finest
done in careless, hap-hnzard manner.
Did 1t ever occur that even If you milk only
ry wheel in that enormous machine that
annually grinds out five or six million
dollars! 1t is no wonder that many milk
on boarding a lot of cows that eat up the
profit of the best cows. There is only one
way to meet creamery prices, and that is
done by testing each COW and raising heif-
ar calves from the best ones. The cows
an are fndaed my ysfefi5ls that viii vary in
per centage of fat from day to day and
reason why. Professor Hacker found a
variation, up and down, in one week from
2.6 to Al per cent. in the same COW. But
each COW has her individual average, 50
that testing once week, or every other
week has proven to give good enough re-
suits to be practical testing cows.
Who has time for such tomfoolery? is
quite a natural question for the man or
boy who comes home late from the field
and rushes through the work of milking,
explained elsewhere regularity in hours of
milking and the counting this as work
and not as little extra chore is a neces-
sity in order to produce cheaper milk. In
this case the testing of each COW is not
such job as we are inclined to think.
Before trying note the time in the evening
| exactly when the milking was done the
previous evening and see that it is done
exactly at the same time in the evening
| of test day. Have spring balance with a
clean pail, the weight of which you know,
near the can into which you empty the
milk, also slate or memorandum book
| also as many jars, bottles or tunlblers as
you have covers. to be tested with a little
tin measure holding about one ounce
| Have these things on a convenient shell
and the spring balance hung with pail sc
that it is handy to weigh and need. Pour
the milk in the weigh pail, read the weight
deduct that of the pail and jot it down op
posite the name of the COW, then pour the
| milk back and fourth three or four times
dip out measure full and pour it into the
jar with cover on. Repeat this operation
each night and morning for a week ant
the sample may then be tested at you
leisure if you. as you ought to have-havt
a Babcock tester, or bringit to the fac
tory to be tested. Test your milk at home
with one of Babcock's testers and ther
you will see that you are receiving justic,
at the factory. E. SCHoONOVER.