Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1902-01-04

ming In Orange county, New York, It
has moved steadily westward on al
most q direct line. centering for a time
In the Elgin district, but gradually
moving westward. The farmer in this
belt OF district who makes dairy
ing his chief business and COrtin-
ues to do so regardless Of the varying
and tempting prices OF other farm
products, will unquestionably find that
he has accumulated 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 e~Xtravagant 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 it to
the stores for from o to 10 cents a
pound less han 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 noun Of butter fat in the skim
milk. Tests have shown this TO be an
absolute fact, and no farmer can al
ford TO pursue his method, which, fig
uring the loss OF butter fat in the
skim milk, together with the low prices
secured for the butter, viii lose him
from 800 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 n
number have been compelled to discon-
tinue this method because OF living too
far from the creamery, or in some cases
their creamer has been closed from
lack OF patronage or mismanagement.
But their most serious objection is that
OF not being able TO obtain satisfactory
results 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 his
method is considerably more profitable
han 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 a hand
cream separator skim the milk on the
farm. In this way YOU can raise every
calf, as the warm skinned milk
(skimmed as soon as II is milked)
makes excellent feed. The calf raised
In this way for the first six months
will not look as plump as one that
runs with the COW, but it will show
up as a ~yearling as well, and sometimes
better, as the hand fed calf learns to
eat rough feed quicker thar the one
hat runs with its mother. This being
the case, 1t Is easily seen that no farm
er can afford to lose from $500 to 81, 500
a year, this being the amount of cream
that ten to thirty calves would
by running with their mothers, as the
cream from 10 to 30 good cow will
sell for tina amount at the creamery.
With the hand separator il will also
require less time to deliver to the
creamery, and should there not be a
creamery in operation in your vicinity
1t a 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, VIII ii pay me
to buy one?" You will ask yourself the
same question regarding the hand
cream separator, inc after using one
you will agree that 1t is the most profit
able piece Of machinery you nave on
the farm for the investment.
A good hand cream separator should
not lose over one-half 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 a hand cream separator are: First,
one that will skim milk clean; second,
durability; third, simplicity.
tits better TO buy a hand cream sep
arator of any MAKE thai to have none
at all, as II would be better to have a
self binder of any make rather than
fn do without Eaph ma n n~nhnnhfad1U
has some good points, but some Of them