The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1901-10-22
DAIRY AND POULTRY.
INTERESTING CHAPTERS FOR OUR
RURAL READERS.
How sueeessfui Farmers Operate This
Department Of the Farm a Fev
Hints as 70 the Care or Live stock
and Poultry.


81.
Norton OF Iowa, sends out the follow.
ing circular Of instruction.
The bearing Of the law OF this state
upon the subject Of cream testing with
the Babooek test, does not seem 10 be
fuily understood by the butter makers
Of the state. The law reads: Section
z0zS. ANY person or corporation. or
tne empioye Of such person or corpor-
atoh, who operates a creamery or
cheese or condensed milk factory and
uses a chemical milk test to determine
the quantity Of butter fat in milk pur-
chased. used or received, shall so use
only such tests as shall be clear oil.
iree from any foreign substance and
produce correct measurements OF but
Ter fat" or course the word milk in
eludes the word cream.
In testing milk the ordinary IFS
pipette will deliver the saue weight
Of milk, IS grams, whatever its test
may be But the same is not true Of
cream. which varies greatly IN weight
with the variations Of its quality:
hence, whether the Dlquette be 17.6co
or lsec or 22cc, the results obtained
are al incorrect because the weight
q poor cream taken BY any OF these
pipettes is greater than the weight OF
rich cream taken by the same pipette.
ihe proper weight should be Is grams
OF cream or milk. and the most accur-
ATE cream testing can be done only
When the cream Is weighed into the
bottles But this Is practicable only
IN those creameries that can AFFORD 10
nave the proper balances for weighing
the cream in testing.
But the use OF a IFS pipette and the
tables Of corrections prepared at the
iowa Experiment station. will give
very accurate measurements Of the
outter rat In cream, and Is the only
method OF measuring the cream for the
baDcock test that Is held to be author
ized by the law
a Few creameries have been using a I
zz pipette IN cream testing and have
called the reading Of the fat column /
butter instead OF butter fat There are
three reasons why this system should /
not be used First, Il is incorrect. be- T
cause no plpette viii measure out the
same weight Of creams of different +
degrees OF richness. Second. the Bah 1
cock test is a test for butter fat and
not tor butter and the test shows but
Ter iat IN the bottle whatever the
amount Of ask or cream used. and not
butter. TEird, Il is not authorized by
the law TIE attorney general says on
this point. and referring to section 2523
previously quoted. Operators Of
cfeameries, cheese or condensed milk
factories. whenever a test OF the quail
lty Of milk or cream Is made. are re-
quired 10 use such appliances and tests
as shall produce correct measurements
of butter fat" Note the last two
words quoted
The law makes no provision IN re-
gard to the manner OF payment for
he milk OF cream furnished. The
'reamery may pay for it by the hun
fred pounds or by the gallon. or for
he butter Il will make, or the butter
at It contains, but the law Is very
lear that II the creamery uses
'hemical milk test. It must use such
test as shall produce correct meas
irements Of butter fat There Is moth
ng in the law that will prevent a
reamery from paying its patrons for
25 per cen. or a SO per cent overrun.
( the creamery desires to do so; the
'rovision Is that the milk or cream
must be correctly tested for butter fat