Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1902-01-02

ming In Orange county, New York, it
has moved steadily westward on al
most direct line, ccntering for q time
in the Jlgin district, but gradually
moving westward. The farmer. in this
belt or district who makes duirS
ing his chief business and contin
ues to do so regardless OF the varying
and tempting prices of other farm
products, will unquestionably find that
he has accumulate more wealth in the
end.
There seems to be three methods used
in handling and marketing milk prod
ucts of which the Oldest least profit
able, most cXtraNcgant and attended
by most work is that system OF setting
the milk in crooks, pans or cans and
making the butter from the cream at
home, and then selling or trading 1T to
the stores for from 8 to 10 cents a
pound less than the cream would bring
at a creamery. Besides from this i'm
perfect method about 80 pounds of but
ter per COW is lost each year by leaving
that amount of butter fat in the skim
milk. Tests have shown this to be an
absolute fact, and no farmer can at
ford to pursue this method, which, fig
uring the loss of butter fat in the
skim milk, together with the low prices
secured for the butter, will lose him
from 500 to 5000 a year on five or more
cows, according to the number he
keeps.
The second method is somewhat more
profitable, which is that OF hauling the
whole milk to the creamery. But a
number have been compelled to discon-
tinue this method because of living too
far from the creamery, or In some cases
their creamery has been closed from
lack of patronage or mismanagement.
But their most serious objection is that
of not being able to obtain satisfactory
Sesults in raising calves on the sour
skinned milk that the creameries are
sometimes obliged to return. They also
object to the loss of time of the team
and driver hauling the same during the
busy season on the farm.
But even with these objections this
method is considerably more profitable
than the first.
The latest, and what seems to be the
most profitable as 1t possesses the good
features of the second that of selling
to the creamery--is to have hand
cream separator skim the milk on the
farm. In this way YOU can raise every
calf as the warm SKINNED milk
(sllimlned as soon as 1T is milked)
In this way for the first six months
will not look as plump as one that
runs With the cow but 1T will show
up as q yearling as we'll, and sometimes
better, as the hand fed calf learns to
eat rough feed quicker than the one
that runs with its mother. This being
the case, 1t is easily seen that no farm
er can afford to lose from $500 to 81, 800
q year, this being the amount of cream
that ten to thirty calves would consume
by running with their mothers as the
cream from 10 to 80 good cows will
Sell for that amount at the creamery
With the hand separator it will also
require less time TO deliver to the
creamery. and should there not be a
creamery in operation in your vicinity
it can be easily shipped to the nearest
creamery.
The self binder, corn harvester, stock
shredder, check rover and other up to
date farm machinery have not been
With us so long but that the farmer
now using them can remember asking
himself the question. "Will it pay me
same question regarding the hand
cream separator, and after using one
you will agree that it is the most profit
able piece Of machinery you have on
the farm for the investment.
A good hand cream separator should
not lose over onehalf to one pound of
butter per COW per year, besides saving
a great deal of the work in washing
pans, milk cans, etc. They are as easily
run as a sewing machine and are a
great deal simpler.
The main features to look for in buy
ing hand cream separator are: First,
one that will skim milk clean; second,
durability; third, simplicity.
1t Is better to buy hand cream sep
arator of any make than to have none
at all, as it would be better to have
self binder of any make rather than
to do without Each make undoubtedly
has some good points, but some of them