Hutchinson gazette., 1900-01-11
DAIRY AND POULTRY.
INTERESTING CHAPTERS FOR
OUR RURAL READERO.
How Successful Farmers Operate This
Department OF the Farm--A Few
HintS Nc TO tho Care VI Live Stock
and Poultry.
Dairy Notes.

Dairy Notes
We are constantly hearing OF patches
OF butter brought onto the market In
such condition that II has to seSl far
on tho regular price to be disposed OF
ut all. Butter poorly packed, poorly
salted and poorly worked. is no uncom-
mon sight. In many cases the butter
would have been good II properly
treated, Over II all ueems to be writ
ten the word "carelesIness." To this
word might be added the word "igno-
rance" and the whole truth would be
out. More study and more applica-
tions OF the lessons learned are neces-
sary II butter Is to bring the price 1t
should In the market
In examining the so-called aquatic
and hydraulic separators, one is struck
by the force OF these words as mis-
nomers. The great mechanical sep
arators are, In truth, separators be-
cause by their mechanical motion they
separate the milk from the cream.
But a tin pan Is not a separator, for
II does nothing The separation is not
accomplished by any quality of the pan
or vessel In which the milk and water
are set The cream is not separated
by any mechanical agent, but is sepa-
rated through the force OF gravltatlon.
The application Of the term separator
to dishes In which milk 10 set Is un-
truthful and dishonest. 1t is a delib-
crate attempt to steal reputation and
to reap some advantage from the i'm
mense sums Of money that the real
separator companies have paid out for
Advertising.
II Is surprising to see how easily
some people are annoyed. In cevtain
states the dairymen, or, rather, q efv
OF them, express their dissatisfaction
at being annoyed" by health officers
prying around to find II they use pre-
servatives in their milk, and also in
curling II their cows have tuberculosis,
and II they wash their cans IN we'll
water that Is contaminated py sewage
from closets that have received the
stools" of typhoid fever patients. One
would suppose that all men would
want the public health preserved, but
some are certainly in favor OF the pub
lie health being preserved to the point
only where 1t does not interfere with
business, The most dIscouraging
thing about this is that these men
often succeed in stopping such investl-
cations, being able ~ bring about con-
certed action because OF a community
Of interests.
The advent OF the hand separator
greatly lessened the burdens Of many
people that were milking cows and
raising cream by means OF the old pan
system or were hauling the milk for
many miles to some creamery. 1t has
been a blessing in this way, but 1t is
also proving to be a blessing In an
other way-it is making It possible for
people to do dairylng who never did
dairying before, Many farmers live so
far from the creamerles that 1t Is quite
impractlcable for them to attempt to
produce milk unless they expect to
make tho butter themselves. Now,
however, the hand separator 10 being
quite extensively used by farmers llv-
Ing a long distance from the cream
cries, who separate their milk at home
and send only cans OF cream to the
creamerles. II this has to be sent by
rail or other paid conveyance 1t Is not
such matter. Also a man with a col
lectlng route can make q much larger
circuit, as he has so much less weight
to carry.
Reports from some Of the great but
ter centers indicate that storage butter
Is selling we'll up to the price Of fresh
butter This is due to one or two very
important facts. The first is that Much
OF the stored butter Is June butter
and Is superior in color and quality.
This butter, though stored, has not to
compete with fresh June butter, but
with fall and early winter butter. The
June butter is made largely from fresh
pasture grass while the fall butter is
often injured by the weeds that the
COWS cat on account Of the shortness
OF the pasture grass. The butter that
Is made from milk just after the cows
have their first feelings OF hay is fire.
gently affected by the taste of the hay.
Every one has noticed this taste in the
milk just after the cows arc put up"
In the fall. The stored butter is con-
stantly receiving more attention at
the hands Of the men that store 1t, and
1t Is therefore being kept today in
more perfect condition than 1t was
possible to keep 1t few years ago.
Where farmers wife is dependent
on the grocer at the neighboring sta
tion or village for the marketing Of
her butter, measures should be taken
to establish a reputation for the prod
uct 1t is often that the good butter
sells as low as the poor butter, and
this Is largely due to the fact that
buying butter in such places is some
thing OF q lottery anyway, and the
buyers do not propose to pay more
than the price that is going, what
is butter today?" is a common query,
Just as II there were some fixed price
at which all butter must be sold. In
every little village, as we'll as in every
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