The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1898-11-15
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''creomery sharks and their hackers.
Since then it has not been quite so
easy for them to find victims. Yet
they still fud too many az all of the
agricultural and dairy papers do not
expose their swindIing methods. How
ever, some of the local papers sound
notes of warning and whatever is done
in that direction can be traced to the
editorial in the Clinton paper.
E. W. Mostly.
Clinton, Iowa.
(The Clinton folks certainly have
had their hands full, but some OF their
promoters" escaped and we're exposed
in New England, in New York, and
local authorities here in North Caro-
lima by circulars of the North Carolina
Agricultural Experiment Station. This
institution took so active a part in help
ing some farmers organizations to get
proper information as to actual cost
and value of creamery apparatus that
in several sections an outlay Of 81 600
or IS, 600 for q good plant at 8 1000,
where could be found eight times as
many COWS as in our c0mmunitie, swas
prevented.-ED.)
PORTABLE CREAMERY VS. SEPARATOR.
Correspondence Of The Progressive Farmer.
From g letter written by Mrs. j. w.
Goss, OF Hygiene, Boulder county, Col +,
copy the following: ''Some people
have returned to deep setting and home
skimming, in the vicinity of the by
giene creamery, that they may save so
many trips with milk and may have
sweet akim) milk without the addition
of water"
An agricultural journal says, 'The
farmer who does his own work gets
pay for it instead of having a share Of
what butter he sells go to the maker at
the factory. Moreover his by products
are in the best possible condition"
The above quotations are indicative
and suggestive. For years the great
amount of capital back of the separa-
tor and the public creamery interests
was able to thoroughly mold public
opinion-doing it in many ways, that
cold deep setting of milk for cream
raising and private dairy butter max
ing we're naturally forced to take back
seats. For q year or two there has
been a reaction, especially in certain
sections Of the country, and it is CON.
stantIy extending. As it relates to the
haad separator, such reaction has
taken place to the greatest degree IN
those sections where that machine was
first introduced and sufficient time
allowed to demonstrate its non dapta
bility to the average private dairy.
For q time its novelty kept it in place,
but even that could not always recon
Gle the users to the amount Of hard
work called for twice q day to run it
by hand. Even if a power was pro
vided the work Of cleaning tie sepsra-
tor remained and was found no smell
matter. many users reporting it to be
greater than all the work connected
with running and caring for a modern
portable creamery, including the final
separation Of the cream from the milk,
which is accomplished by drawing the
latter from under the former and
includes no hard work.
A lady-a farmers Hife-Who had
for sometime been using q portable
creamery, was induced to try a hand
separator under the representation that
it would result in more cream and
save labor. She said to the writer that
q careful test and comparison showed
no gain Of cream or butter resulting
from the use Of the separator, over the
creamery, while the labor connected
with the former was much greater
than with the latter. And that, be-
sides, even if she should use a separator,
something would be needed in which
to store the cream, skimmilk and but
ter, and that she had found nothing
answered that purpose as we'll al a
portable creamery with refrigerator
combined. After a fair trial she let
the separator go feeling more than
ever satisfied with her creamery.
The writer does not wish to be un.
derstood as writing the public cream
cry down a failure, for in many cases
it has proved and is proving a success,
or at least apparently so, if to no one
else, to the proprietors. In some in
stances it is without doubt a success so
far as some if not all the patrons are
concerned. But In many instances
patrons of public creameries would be
better off by making up their own