The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1900-08-12

twenty good COWS. This butter is DENY
cred a. our so4,lon once d week IN rrm
and sweet condition and shipped with mat
delivered on the same day Dj quite num-
Der OF our farmers who use the same de-
Vice. / n4ve used i OF smaller capacity
for years in caring for milk meats ana
butter for my family IN town, because H.
is much cheaper and better than the re-
sula | have been able TO obtain from the
RET. orator. There are quite a number
OF our citizens expressing The same sen
timents. II is being employed at this
college now in handling The cream from
eighty COWS, with what success and cat
isiaotion you cansdetermine on the spot
from the parties In charge of the dairy.
These creamers are neatly made at home.
have been sold over a portion OF TeXas ana
shipped into eleven other States IN Inn
tied quantities when our capitalists can
see something of less magnitude than
cotton mill we may be able TO work on
larger scale.
II is useless to describe the arrange
ment, as you can sec II In operation but
the point and principle may be of some
interest
The milk should be thoroughly strained
into the cans as quickly as possible win
as little exposure to the air as practical.
A band of cloth Is wet and placed around
the can skin tight. with the surplua
width folded over into the depressed top.
set IN plate and placed in a stand aud
drIpped from feeder started. The ar
rangement OF ton OF can Is such that all
animal heats, doors and gases may be
expelled from the milk as 1t cools and
yet not an atom OF dust nor air can get
in except through the fibers OF the clio h
wet with mild antlseptic water. There
may be many as six cans to each feeder.
The feeder con tains clear water-either
hot or cold-and a small sack OF chemi
cal. which Is slowly taken up in the wa
ter. II works automatically. only re-
curing to be filled and started daily.
Each can is completely isolated. The
gases from milk are just as penetrating
as any other though not so odorous. The
milk or cream Is reduced TO a safe tem-
perature and practically held in that con-
ditiOn regardless OF variation OF atmOs-
phere. My position is that milk Of DIFF
ferent ages and conditions should not be
exposed to each other. One Is throwing
off and the other absorbing. Dairy folks
are using aerators. Why do they do so?
There Is nothing whatever in the air that
will improve milk. especially in warm
weather.
Neither the odor Of barn. the close
atmosphere Of dairy room. nor even the
perfume of volets can benefit IT, The
only advantage is in quickly cooling; you
expel the animal heats and to some ex-
tent the odor OF freshly drawn milk This
we accomplish, though not so quickly,
without exposing It TO the influence OF
germ laden air.
The secret OF good. well Favored but
ter is clean feed and water. and well
kept milk and cream. Il must be well
cared for every moment after leaving the
COW until 1t gets to the churn Casually
twenty -four to thirty-six hours).
II YOU can accomplish this with a cow
bell and skillet. IS as much as any one
can do, with tons OF ice and expensive ma
chinery. II you can lot accomplish 1t yoi
certainly must not expect well, fresh iav-
cred milk. or a rich. AItty taste TO the
butter. Z
As we do not use ice we only mold orr
butter in brick shape when the season will
admit Of it safely. At other times we ship
in the regular butter tubs or pals ga
patron taking out what he can use during
the week. BY shipping on stated days we
got the benefit OF i low rate for quantity
Each package 10 marked With nime Or
private brand OF malsr sold on merit and
returns come back accordingly, Customers
soon bsgin to watch for favorile marks and
your reputation Is established either Tor
good or bad The adoption Of the dairy on
the farm as a business is the keynote OF
the situation. It is feature OF dlversl-
acation that brings other lines as natural
as water flows. Hogs. poultry Of sll kinds,
fruits and gardens follow right along Two
crops per year will be raised on the same
ground and fertility preserved, no debfs q
settle in the fall with the cotton crop all
clear The dairy sections OF the United
States and OF other countries are said 10
be the most prosperous. They ire said 10
be the most enlightened, because they are