The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1901-05-09
. FARMERS FAVOR IT!
GENERAL Assurances Of Support for 9
First.Class Creamery
THE BABcock MILK TEST
importance Of Silos In Providing Green
Feed for Winter Use Amount Re-
quirsd-Indisn Corn and Red Glover
tho Best Silage Plants

quirsd-Indixn Corn and Red Glove
tho Best silage Plants
Considering the short notice and tn,
busy season the meeting at the Sal
Juan Club rooms last Friday evenin,
to consider the creamery proposition
was well attended and very satisfac
tory. Much interest has been aroused
in the project and assurances of cordia
support from the owners of the fines
farms and largest herds of dairy COW.
in the San Juan valley greatly encour
age the hope of the Inauguration of the
enterprise at an early date. There are
ABOUT NOO cows owned on San Juan
island within radius of five or six
miles Of Friday Harbor and if the milk
can be secured from half of these, as il
confidently expected, there Is little
DOUBT that enough can be secured from
other localities to make up the mini
mum supply of 5000 pounds day re.
quired. Frank Dennison reported that
there are seventy seven cows on
Shaw island, of which forty-seven are
now fresh. One farmer from there
who was in town Saturday said that he
would furnish the milk of five cows as
soon as the creamery starts and that be
would soon double the number. And
there are doubtless many others who
could and would do as we'll. Steps
have been taken to ascertain as nearly
as possible what supply can be relied
upon to begin with. August Void was
persuaded by those who attended the
meeting Friday evening to make a sys.
tematic canvass of the island, within
a radius of five or six miles, and also of
portions of Lopez and Orcas. Merely
AS evidence of good faith, to show Mr..
Patterson that q creamery IS wanted
and will be supported, farmers are be-
ing asked to sign the following
AGREEMENT
In the event of the establishment of q
first-class creamery at, or in the vicinity
of, Friday Harbor, the undersigned agree
to supply the same with the milk Tor
creamy of the number of COWS set opposite
their respective names, for the period of
one year, subject to the following condi-
tons, viz: That the price paid for butter
fat shall be the wholesale market price,
as reliably quoted from day to day, for
the best creamery butter, and that the
price charged at the creamery for butter
making shall not exceed A cents pound
where the milk is supplied direct to the
creamery without separation, and 2 cents
a pound to those to furnish the cream
from their own separatOrs; it being fur
ther understood that the charge for butter
making, including milk separation, shall
not exceed cents q pound when the
milk supply reaches 5000 pounds day,
and that from the time the creamery be-
gins operation full cash settlements shall
be made once a month.
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In reply to letter from the editor
relative to the creamery project, An
drew Newhall, owner of the steamer
Buckeye, writing from Newhall. says:
~ AIN glad that the creamery is likely
to be established. feel sure it will he
a success. We will not have any milk
from here just at present, but in a short
time could supply milk from eight or
ten at this point. l, will make a
minimum charge on milk or cream and
return empties free on the Buckeye
from all points"
The islander is also authorized to
state that for period of one year local
merchants who are owners of wharves
here will rebate all wharfage charges
on milk shipped to the creamery by
steamer from other points in the
county. Those who have an adequate
idea of what it costs to build and main.
tain such wharves aud warehouses as
A. h vrvsu tn fs,0f
that this is a very liberal concession.
After separator stations are established
at other points patrons can we'll afford
to gay a small wharfage charge on
cream shipments, sufficient TO cover
the cost of handling.
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Dairymen supplying milk to a
creamery can easily and quickly de.
termine at home, if they wish to, the
exact amount of butter fat contained
in the milk, by the same method that
is now almost universally used at
creameries and milk seceivine stations
in this country, viz, what Is known as
"the Babcock test" invented by Dr.
s. M. Babcock, of the Wisconsin Agri.
cultural Experiment Station. Accord.
ing to bulletin of the agricultural de.
partment this little machine only re-
uuires about'a tablespoonful of milk fol
a sample, and the exact percentage OF
fat in it can be determined by this test
In ten or fifteen minutes. The result
is obtained by the action of centrifugal
force combined with some chemical
effects. The original cost of the ma
chine Is from So to SIS, according tc
size and pattern, and few cents worth
of materials are used at each operation
It's manipulation is easily learned, and
it can be successfully operated by any
careful person. A definite amount 81
the milk or cream to be tested is meas
ured in a pipette and placed in o bottle
which has long, slender, graduated
neck: sulphuric acid is then added, anC
the bottle shaken until the mixture be-
comes dark colored, which requires bu
a few moments. The bottle is ther
placed in the machine, by which 1t Is
rapidly revolved in q horizontal posi-
tion with the neck toward the center
The fat is thus forced toward the neck
nv the other contents of the bottle
which are heavier and therefore thrown
away from the center to the bottom .
the bottle. Sufficient warm water Is
added to bring the fat up into the neck
wheee its exact percentage can be reae
on the scale.
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Farmers who contemplate engaging
In dairying or stock feeding in thi
[county will do well to build substantial
silos and fill them either with corn o
clover ensilage, which make the hes
winter feeds for cattle. They can Oh
tain much valuable information on tn
subject of "silos and silage" by obtain