The daily morning journal and courier., 1900-08-06

! over. Some skimming stations average 1 as high as eighteen and twenty thou
 sand quarts day. The idea is to pay l premium on the increase of bushes:
 and to encourage the farmers to en- large their milk supply
 A great majority of the cows supply
 ing milk in this state are Of common ol
 native stock. but blooded animals are rapidly replacing them, and It will only
 be few years before the milk crop is | very largely increased. Formerly range cattle were never milked. Nc
 farmer thought of utilizing that seurce
 of revenue. But of late years the 1 calves on many ranches are separated | from the cows and raised on skinned 1 milk, while the cream is shipped to the | creamery. It has been found that good ! beef cattle can be raised from skinned milk calves, and the profit on the milk
 is so much extra money to the owner. At skimming station one man can
 do all the work and he is employed by
 the creamery company. The farmers bring their milk to the skimming sta tion once a day, in the morning, using ten-gallon cans When a can is placed
 
 takes off the lid, tastes the milk and if
 he finds it sweet empties 1t into a
 weighing can which sits on pair of scales on the inside platform and holds from forty to sixty gallons. The
 weight of the milk is recorded on what Is called the milk sheet" opposite the name and number of the farmer who has furnished it, and sample of about
 two ounces is put into test bottle,
 which also bears the farmers number.
 Each patron has his own number which is used instead of his name, and appears not only on the milk sheet but on the test bottles and his milk cans
 The faucet to the weigh can Is opened and the milk runs into a separator, where the machinery is in motion. so that after detention of only few mo- ments the farmer can get his skinned milk and go home. This milk, when separated from the cream, runs into 8 vat on the other side of the house, where the farmers cans are refilled. This distribution is done in a curious way. The receiver who weighed the farmers milk when it was brought in gives him an iron check representing the amount. He drops the check into a slot, which opens an automatic skimmed-milk welgher long enough to give him the exact amount of milk to which he is entitled, and then shuts off until the next farmer comes along with check. The result is that the farmer takes home ninety per cent. as much milk as he brought, the remaining ten per cent. in cream having been taken out by the separator
 The samples of milk which are taken each day are kept dramatically sealed until the 1st or the 18th of the month. when they are tested by a Babcock tester and an average taken of their value in butter fat. Reports of these tests, together With statement of milk delivered by each farmer are for warded to the headquarters at Lincoln on the 1st and 18th of every month, and check is sent-back to the farmer by return mail. 'oJ
 The Lincoln creamery operates about one hundred of these skimming stations and receives an average of five thou- sand pounds of milk daily from each station. which usually tests four per cent. in butter fat and makes carload of butter every day. The cream from the skimming stations Is shipped to the factory at Lincoln on the next passen- ger trains The railroad furnishes cars fitted up for the purpose The creame- ry company has man on the car like an express agent, who receives the cream at each station and distributes the cans on his return trip. As the train arrives at Lincoln the cream car is switched out and run up the side track to the door of the creamery, where it is unloaded
 The advantage of this consolidation of business Is apparent. The farmer has sure crop and is paid for 1t in cash twice every month. He gets nine ty per cent. of his milk back, on which he can raise calves and greatly increase the revenue from each COW. The price of milk is higher than it would be if 1 creameries were esta blished at each | station, for the convenences and economical management of the | large plant at Lincoln enable the man. ufacturers to make a uniform quality | of butter at minimum price.
 The Lincoln creamery people tell me that they are receiving milk from f1f teen thousand new patrons this year. many of them farmers recently arrived | from the east-Chicago Record