The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1899-09-15
Reware of Rubber Hose.

Beware of Rubber Hose.
1.-The care of the pipes leading from
the milk tank to the separators will
come under this head Of heating milk.
A short time ago certain creamery
changed hands, and to be sure that the
milk pipes were clean they were taken
down and examined" says Leighton
in Chicago Produce. Imagine their
surprise to find them nearly filed up
with casein, etc., although the butter
maker had steamed them out every
day It showed that there was a little
left each time There is another prac-
tice which l am sorry to say is becom-
ing more general every day. This is in
having a rubber hose to conduct the
milk from the tempering vat to the
separators. Now, I don't know how
you feel about it. but could relish a
glass of milk better before it came
through that hose than afterward.
Some one will say: We'll. what are we
going to do anyway? Separator manu-
facturers make the milk faucets so that
a hose must be used 1t really does
look this way. Still you can substitute
a tin spout for rubber hose. Suppose,
for instance, that you have to conduct
the milk three feet to the separator.
Why not have a galvanized iron pipe
made just the proper length and size ?
These can be very easily cleaned, and
then you can rest assured that they are
clean and your butter is not liable to
taste of rubber boots. Then, too, in
stead of having that long milk pipe
eight or ten feet in length, where there
are places in which 10, 900, 900 microbes
could hide. without the steam ever find
ing them, have a heavy, square, gal
vanized iron spout, with the top open
and having an opening for each separ-
ator. know this would be better, but
perhaps not so convenient as the hose
and pipe, which have been termed the
lazy butter makers tools, although I
think this is misnomer. as many Of
the best butter makers have their
creameries equipped in this manner.
Nurse Cows.
We have several very old COWS which
are practically unstable, but with care
produce calf every year. These cows
are too old to nurse their calves, so I
take the calf away when day or two
old and put it on a nurse cow, thus CIV
ing the COW ample time to recover her
strength and get in good condition, and
I have a calf that will at year old
bring from $3.50 to $3.50. Again, there
are times when in a bunch Of heifers
you find some that cannot raise their
calves properly. I consider it in such
cases good policy to help the calf with
a little extra milk from a nurse cow.
We have bought during the last year a
large number Of young bulls, and had
some of them had a little help from a
nurse COW in their calfhood they would
have brought their owners twice as
much as they did Believing as I do
that the future reproductive power, Ell
Their good or bad, in a great measure
depends upon the way the calf is cared
for from its birth to its period of USE
fulness, I feel sure that there are cir
cumstances in all breeds where a nurse
cow would be great advantage both
financially and for the welfare and
benefit Of the beef breeds -Edward G.
Scarlet in Breeders Gazette.
Paraffin OIeO.
As parafin costs about 6 cents per
pound. there is chance to cheaper the
cost of oleo, says Hoard Dairy1&n- On
the amount Of oleo made last year 10
per cent of paraffin would amount to
$3.50. 900 pounds, and the above amount
bought at cents and sold at - cents
per pound would amount to the nice
little profit of $526. 800, in addition to
the regular profit of manufacture, a
nice little sum and well worth trying
for But every pound of parafin used
means a pound of butter the less, a
powerful factor in lowering prices Of
creamery butter and consequent gen.
eral decentralization of the dairy bust
ness, to say nothing of the unhealthful-
ness of the paraffin. IF the dairymen Of
the country do not put up good.
strong fight against this paraffin oleo,
they may as we'll sell their cows and
stop making butter, for there is enough
raw material in the country to make q
substitute for every pound of butter
now roado