Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1899-10-14
call their attention to their desire to
have the bill passed.

call their attention to their desire to
have the bill passed.
The tin separator comes in for it's
share of attention. 1t is shown by ex-
periments and reports from this and
other state that it is fraud upon the
farmer. That he pays ten or fifteen
dollars for a tin can worth about rs |
cents. That 1t will not take out much
more than IS to so per cent of the but
ter fat in the milk. Attempts have been
made to brighten farmers into paying
royalties on the process as If anybody |
could get patent on the process of |
separating cream from milk by pour |
ing cold water into it. Another fraud |
which is exposed is the butter in
creaser,' which is sold to dishonest
dairymen for the purpose of making
butter heavier than it would otherwise
be, subjecting 1t to a chemical treat
ment which fills it with nearly so per
cent of water. This fraud. says the
commissioner, is at once detected and
renders the butter worthless on the
market Another evil which Mr.. Nor
ton has been fighting during the year is
the milk preventative "freezine" used
by some milk dealers to keep milk
sweet. 1t is plainly an adulteration UNI
lder the law, and many of these COM
pounds are very injurious to health
Any person using it will be prosecuted
to the full extent of the law.
The number of farm separators has
4 greatly increa sed. Last year there were
l904, this year 1860. The advantages of
using them are that they increase the
effectiveness of the separator plan from
the old gravity Dreaming; the saving
land cost of hauling the milk or cream
4 to the creamery and back: the increased
value of the skim milk, due to its uni
form sweetness, and the saving of time
and labor and dairy utensils formerly
used The commissioner says that there
lis no question that good separator
makes money for the dairyman. The
best methods of gravity Dreaming BY
the use of ice leave from siN-terths to
nine-tenths of per cent of the butter
fat in the milk, that is, from 20 to 30
per cent of all the butter fat in the
. milk, while first-class separator takes
practically all the butter fat out of the
milk. Mr. Norton is of the opinion that
: when a man has ten COWS it will be
profitable. for him to buy a good sepa-
rator, although it does not necessarily
follow that it will be profitable for him
D
ing the cream to the creamery. 1t re-
auires no skill to run a separator, but
!. lit requires great skill to manufacture
butter that will meet the demands of
! the market and to find the best market
for it.
: A better feeling exists between the
ldairymen and the creamery opera tors
. resulting from the better understanding
: of the Babcock test, which is the meas
: ure used to ascertain the amount OF
= butter fat in each patrons milk. Mr.
!, Norton advises creamery operators te
: be more careful in the use of these
], tests to see that they are honest ane
that their patrons have reason to Know
n that they are honest.
" The cheese industry shows consid
: cradle falling off within the past year
!, The number of factories is sixty-nin'
= against sixty-seven last year, of which
- fifty-three reported both years. Tn
y value of the factories May l, 1898, wa
= SIS $50, while this year it is sSl,35t
Forty-five factories reported this yea
to have received 24.176.569 pounds o
:, milk. out of which they manufacture
40 800. S95 pounds of cheese. Last yea
lafty-four factories reported recelvln
= 3o7 44.694 pounds of milk out of whic
they made 1900. 400 pounds of chees'
= This year forty-seven factories repo,
.. 2152.1a3 pounds of cheese sold in lowe
% and 24o.752 pounds shipped out of n
~ state Last year forty-two factories re
w ported /. SAG 1876 pounds sold in Iowa an
~ 29s 100 pounds shipped out of the STATE
oo The cheese-making industry in Iowa
~ comparatively a very small one
:, flarge majority of the cheese consume