Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1901-10-19
DAIRY AND POULTRY.
INTERESTING CHAPTERS FOR OUR
RURAL READERS.
How Successful Farmers Operate fhis
Department of the Parma re"
Hints as To the Care of Live stock
and Poultry.
rs.,,.x :. a,r-prar. churn.

Testiag an AIR Draft churn.
Every once In awhile new com
pany is formed to manufacture ar
draft churns, otherwise known as cs'
clone churns. Probably the manu-
facturers are honest and believe they
have good thing. having been iea
to that position by the glib-tohseea
owner of the patent. At the Missouri
Agricultural college recently enusa
OF this variety was tested. z. l. VIZ
loughby, instructor in dairyins al INV
college thus tells OF the test;
The machine contains a horizonta'
revolving dash, operated by large
crank wheel and chain gearing oh
the under side OF dash are air tapes
connected with an upright hollow pipe
from which air is forced through Tug
cream by means OF the eehtfiuss.
force generated from the high speeu
of the dash 1t happened to be the
regular churning day at the collsse.
and the agent was given a couple oi
gallons of cream ready for churnihs
while the remainder of the large
churning was put into combined
churn and worker, operated by hanu
power. The amount OF cream put into
the air-draft machine was exactly 10
lbs, 10 o.. testing "a per cent TAT.
with an acidity by the Mann's test OF
| .65 OF one per cent. and temperature
at start OF So deg. The cream was
therefore In almost ideal condition for
producing good butter In the shortest
time possible considering quality.
Both churns were started at the
same time. and worked with will
The minutes heightened from to 10.
and then from is to 20. with the air
draft Separator still toamlng wildly
without producing butter.
At the end Of 26 minutes the COM
bined churn was stopped. with butter
granules the size OF wheat grains. Al
the end OF 80 minutes the Air-draft
churn produced granules the size OF
mustard seed. Toward the close OF
the work II seemed to run very hard,
and the air bubbles from the intake
pipe were very slow and few. owing
to the thickness OF the cream, Tenn
perature Of buttermllk at time gran
ules formed was 63 deg. In the com
bined churn, and IS deg. In the Air
draft churn. On testing the butter
milk from both sources, II was tounC
the Combined churn lost 80 Of / PEI
cent fat. while the first sample from
the Air-draft churn showed loss o
40 OF per cent and the second sample
loss OF IS Of per cent or an aver
age Of .65 OF per cent which Is en-
tirely too heavy loss for close econ
omy In large enterprises.
The arrangement OF air pipes doe
without doubt force air through tn
cream, especially at the start, but
is not at all certain that this aids 4
the churning. This might help to tax
out bad odors IL the cream containe
. such. But the revolving dash In III
! center OF a stationary vessel falll I
agitate all parts alike. and requires
! longer time than box or barrel churi
as shown by the above test.
a The machine does not meet the tru
K scientific requirements Of the bss
: churning apparatus and is exorbitar
}. In price compared with small size bal
: rel churns. and cannot be Recommend
. ed to the farmer. While It is no dout
}, true as claimed by the inventor. Thu
, butter can be churned In this machIr
! In from one to Ave minutes, this IN,
: is no less true OF any ordinary box
o barrel churn under the same cond
n lions. BY raising the temperature
! the cream high enough, butter may |
b produced in this short time by almo
q any churn. But what kind of butt
results, when using temperatures
rs deg. or even so and 90 deg? Ar
one who knows the elements OF dalr
ing Is acquainted with the fact tn
such high temperatures will produ
butter Of poor quality, soft and saly
weak bodied and without proper graf
This one mistake OF too high femme
AZURE Is one of the greatest causes
day OF poor quality in butter made ,
the farm.
1t should be noted that the adys
Using matter Of this so-called Al
draft Separator fails to make Al
statement about the churning tempe
AZURE. when reciting tests where b,
ter granules broke in / TO s minutes
Honey EEtrastsd