Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1899-05-25
About Crea,neries.


The following is an extract from a
letter written by Mrs Jeanette " rag
Miller to the Wisconsin Farmer in
which she advises farmers to send their
milk to ereameries:
Now if the milk Is sent to the cream
cry all the wife has to do is to wash
and scald the cans with soda water and
set them in an airy place until needed.
whoever does the milking will strain
the milk, and the hauler will come to
the door and get it and bring back the
separated milk, it makes no work for
the wife and she will have or morn
ing hours, that is usually spent In dairy
work, to employ in other occupation or
point, If the weather is fine she will
enjoy going about with her husband at
his morning chores, and with him adj
mire the stock and poultry. The hus-
band will enjoy this as much as his
wife
have heard some men say that
separated milk was not fit for calves
and pigs. | know better than this, for
while 1t may not contain much nutri-
ment as home SKINNED milk, it is still
good, If fed with Judgment. We have
marketed pigs at months old and they
had been fed on creamery skinned
milk, with grain, of course,
We have also raised calves that
looked as well as those that run with
the cow. Some may laugh and say it
is impossible. but I'll tell you how we
do it, and | generally do this part of
the work myself. | put q handful Of
oatmeal and large handful of corn
meal in each pail and pour about 3
pints of boiling water into it, let it
stand few minutes, and then put in
milk enough to make itiust milk warm.
Ny husband feeds themsand the work
ought never he trusted to children.
We are now feeding D calves and
they look well. Each one eats shelled
corn, oats and hay before they ars one
month old. we always give them new
milk for 10 days or two weeks and
gradually change
Yoh will doubtless say this is lots Of
work. To be sure, but what is gained
in this world without work. and it is
through these small gains on the farm
that the farmer makes his money.
Having always kept q strict book
account, from the buying Of a postage
stamp, to the selling of a horse, can
give you some exact figures of what we
made on few cows besides raising
the calves: From October LIST 1893 to
June list 1894. from five cows running
in pasture with hay at night. and with
out extra feed l sold butter (besides
what was used in a family of four and
such company as came, and we use no
small quantity to the amount of 1913. 10.
For some of this got % cents a pound
and only sold 10 pounds less than 20
cents. The next year we sent the milk
to creamery for the same time, from
the same COWS, ON the same kind of
! food, after the hauling was deducted
and we got our own butter and cream,
we received $1l8.29. Don't imagine
that think this any butter record.
Our cattle are not special butter cows
We raise cattle more for beef. yet we
mean to make all we can out of the
milk of the cows, but If they had bseu
fed on chopped food. they would, of
course have done better, but / give
these figures merely to show the gain
in patronizing a creamery over making
butter at home.
If wifes strength counts for any
thing, think the gain on this account
doubles that Of dollars and cents, and
In these progressive times a woman,s
time can be better employed than work
ing In the kitchen three fonrths of the
time. Let machinery do all it will to
save her and give the farmers wife
more time to get out in the worl l..
From Hoard's Dairyman.