Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1901-05-18
DAIRY AND POULTRY.
INTERESTING CHAPTERS FOR
OUR RURAL READERS
now successful Farmers operate This
Departments of the Farm = a Few
Hints as to tls Care Of Live Stock
e1d Poultry.
Cream separators on tas Farm.

Cream SepAFatOrs on tas Farm.
On invitation OF Secretary F. D. Co
burn, Of the Kansas State Board of
Agucu1ture. an address was delivered
at the Boards recent annual meeting
by Mr.. Geo. Morgan, longtime, OBJ
servant dairy and creamery man, on
the subject Of using cream separators
on the farm. Mr.. Morgan is entirely
convinced of the desirability of the
milk-producer having his separating
done at home rather than at the fac
tory or station, and some Of his OBJ
servations are as follows:
The value of the farm separator
to the private dairyman has already
passed the experimental stage. The
evidence of our experimental stations
and the testimony of all who have
made careful, intelligent comparison
between the gravity system and the
modern cream separator is practically
unit in favor of the latter for the
private dairyman. The question as to
Its advantages in localities where
creameries are established is one con-
fronting creameries at this time in
their operating expenses. This applies
alike both to creamery and patron,
whether under cooperative or pro-
prietary management, it makes but lit
tie difference All are vitality interest
ed in the expense account. If the east
ern creamery enjoys a patronage OF
from 10000 to $1,000 pounds of milk
per day, while many of our creameries
are running along at from 5000 to
5000 pounds, then we have lost much
of the advantages we possess on ac-
count of our cheaper dairy foods in
the increased cost Of operating. Evil
| IDENTIFY, as long as present conditions
exist, some system of Capitalization is
| inevitable
The farm separator, we think, will
assist greatly in solving this problem.
| 1t means minimum of labor with a
! maximum OF profit. The product is
carried in condensed form from the
patron to the creamery. In our state,
dairying is incidental to beef and pork
production. The conditions at times
are peculiar and perplexing. The
farmer has way of putting the cream
cry on half rations OF milk. When
times and crops are good, it is no IN
common thing to find him at milking
time quietly sitting on the fence with
a cOmplacent smile upon his counte-
| nance, as he watches the calf do the
milking, but when reverses come, the
cow and the creamery are counted
amongst his best friends and assets
| Where large investments are made II
skimming stations and these spells
strike the patrons, it often proves verj
| disastrous to the management, as they
| feel compelled to keep running
though the patronage has gone below
any chance of profit. We feel safe il
saying that fully one-third of tht
skimming stations in this state from
October to May do not pay running ex
penses 1t is in these localities where thu
farm separator will prove Of the great
est benefit. If the patronage is igh
then the expense is correspondent!
light We place the average cost OF {
Swimming station at 81 900 and thu
average cost of operating at $500 pc
annum
At points where the patronage il
liberal, any radical change would no
be advisable It will to a great eXten
work it's own way. But at these weak
er, non-paying stations much good cal
be accomplished Dy the use OF the IdTn
separator, especially in territory wher
the distance is too great to haul milk
True, to carry out this plan the farm
eP must make an investment for whicl
he is amply compensated in the in
creased value of the skim milk and tn
convenience of having it on the farm
morning and evening to be fed Will
warm, sweet and fresh and in the bes
possible condition to be fed to tn
young animal. The milk patron oftel
suffers a severe loss on account of hi
| Sundays milk during the heated tern
He also loses again by feeding new mil
to the calf for six or eight weeks O.
account of the danger incurred in feed
ing the creamery milk. Where mil
5 is fed from the farm separator by care
full management and the use Of Kafl
: corn-meal, the calf can be put upon tn
SKINNED milk at 10 days old. 1t ha
been our experience that the patron
. with from 10 to Is COWS save enoug
in one year to pay for a 500 ma
chine.