Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1898-03-17

CREAM SEPARATOR.
what 1t win Do For the Butter and
Cream Dairy,


tester, cream ripening watts. butter pack
ages churn and all complete. have
tested skimmilk after it had stood "a
hours in cans in cold water and found
one-fourth of the total amount Of butter
fat remaining, and if such results come
from the gravity process in careful
hands what must be the loss when de-
pended upon by less careful persons.
Before using the separator had good
dreamer in a cool cellar, supplied by
we'll water at temperature of 4S de-
grees, and yet | sometimes found the
skimmilk contained as much as six
tenths of pound of butter fat to every
100 pounds of milk. Now frequently
find no trace of butter fat in the skim
milk
was greatly pleased with the work
of the separator from the beginning,
not only because it did good work it.
self, but it saved me work in caring for
the milk and made decided difference
in the amount of butter had for my
customers. Of course during July and
August this difference was likely to be
the most perceptible, but nevertheless
the years record also left an undisput-
ed argument in favor Of the separator
when found that the COWS averaged 05
pounds more each for the year than ever
before. Some will say that "we are ex-
| tremely careful, and we are satisfied
that we get practically all the butter
fat. y One of my friends made just such
arguments, and said that in warm
weather they packed the cans in ice, SO
be was certain they secured all the but
ter. But his wife finally concluded that
a separator would save her much work
in caring for the milk, in skimming
by hand, warming the milk for the
vessels, ETC., and she decided to have a
separator. 1t was purchased, and the
result was 80 pounds Of butter more the
first week than before from 10 COWS.
Her husband could scarcely believe that
they had been feeding $3.50 worth of
butter to the calves and pigs each week.
That is at the rate of nearly $500 a
year. How many farmers are there who
care to willingly feed that much unnec-
essary food to the calves and pigs, when
calves and pigs are as we'll of without
it?
The same lady told me that not only
did they get this nice increase in the
butter product, but that it actually saved
her three hours work each day. Think
of that, good housewives Three hours
less labor each day with the milk means
three hours more for some less laborious
task or for reading the magazines or for
instructing the children or for practice
on the organ or piano or for social visits
to and from your friends.
But some will say the cost is consid-
cradle. Well, yes, it probably is, yet the
returns correspond we'll with the cost.
remember when father paid $240 for a
com bined reaper and mower, but we
thought we could not afford to do with
out it, and it did service for 20 years,
and some years we made $40 or $50
with it cutting for the neighbors. After
ward we paid the same price-$240-
for self binder, but it was almost a
necessity. The cream separator is ne
cessity to any one who sells butter or
cream from five or more good COWS, if
he expects best results, and I believe
there is no other piece of machinery
that can be placed upon the average
farm that will actually pay for itself in
less time than a cream separator.
Does it run hard? No, not SO tiresome
as the turning of grindstone or fam
ming mill am still running mine by
hand power, though contemplate the
purchase of a sheep tread power, not SO
much to relieve me of the task as to
furnish healthful exercise and employ
ment for the ram, which will be all the
better for him. These small dog or sheep
powers may now be had for $15 and
they may be used to run the churn,
grindstone, tanning mill, cornsheller. etc.
Is it liable to get out of repair? I have
had to buy one rubber ring-cost 10
oents-in two years, and frequently
turn it over to the hands to run, SO it
cannot be said that the slight cost for
repairs is due altogether to extreme care,
though do exercise care of this as we'll
as all other farm machinery.
Can any one operate it? Any one of
ordinary intelligence and Judgment can
operate it after once seeing the work
done. The machine wants to stand on
good foundation, be made secure to it,
kept level, turned regularly, the bear
ings we'll oiled and occasionally cleaned.
The bowl should be handled carefully
and not permitted to fall to hard floor,
in which case it might be injured Do
not start the machine too quickly, nor
attempt to stop it by force when once
put in motion. Start it gently, get it to
full speed before turning on the milk,
and when necessary to leave before COM
plotting the skimming, shut off the feed,
and on return get up the speed again
before turning on When through, let
the machine stop of its own accord,
which it will do in from two to ten
minutes, according to the kind of ma
chine you have. Right here I would
say, buy the kind that runs the longest
after you cease turning. twill turn the
easiest and run the most steadily and do
the best work. John L. Shawyer in
Farm and Fireside.