Anadarko daily democrat. [volume] (Anadarko, Oklahoma) 1901-190?, 1902-10-23


following gentlemen Prof w. !.
Frazer, University OF Illinois; w. II.
Burke, editor Of Farmers Voice; Mil
Ter Purvis, editor Dairy and Cream.
cry, and G. 4. Shamel, editor Orange
Judd Farmer Some Of the best
creGmeries in the state were visited
and some of the worst. Two, south
of Marongo, were particularly bad,
le badness consisting not only Of
poor appliances, but also of poor
management.
No matter how good all Of the
appliances in the creamery south OF
Marengo might have been, it would
not have prevented the contamination
of milk at the weigh can, as the recep.
tion of milk was carried on there
Just above the receiving can. in
which the milk was weighed, was a
large beam extending entirely across
the can and perhaps fifteen inches
above it. Every time a can of milk
from a farmers wagon was emptied
into this can, the milk splashed up
against the bottom Of this beam, and
llbth lht DtdIl ulllh was tOubldully
dripping back into the weigh can
The beam was coated with the in
crustations of many days milk, plus
dirt, plus flies. The bacteria that
were constantly finding a lodging
place on that beam must have been
of every conceivable kind and variety.
Moreover, in that location, away from
the sunshine but in the heat and
moisture, they must have multiplied
day and night. From that they were
being washed Off into the milk. No
matter how clean a mans milk might
have been it certainly would have
become iroculated with bad germs
from this beam Now it should be
noticed that this kind of management
would spoil things even with the best
of appliances. Perhaps it was neces-
sary to have the weigh can under the
beam, but if so, it could have been
protected by some kind of screen
from the constant washings of the
mink being brought in. That screen
could then have been washed at each
time of using. Good management,
however, would not have placed
weigh can in such a place.
At another creamery, a little fur
ther south of Marengo, was seen an
old barrel churn that had formerly
been combined churn and butter.
worker. The utensil had been in use
so long that foul odors had permeated
all parts of the interior. The butter.
maker said that he could no longer
get the bad smells out of it by any
process of washing, so he took ou,
the rollers and other parts of the ma
chinery for working, and had been
using it since as a barrel churn. The
hoops were rusty and the smell on
the inside was bad. The butter.
maker assured his visitors that the
smell came not from the churn itself
but from the iron in the water stand.
ing in the churn. The butter in
tub near 1t was tasted of, and found
to be nauseating. 1t was a wonder
that 1t could be eaten by anyone. We
wondered what it would be like after
1t went off in flavor.
Tke cans in which the milk was
brought to these two creamcries were
anything but reassuring. They looked
as If they might have been used for
the last twenty years for all kinds
OF work, bringing milk to the cream
cry, hauling back whey and skim.
milk, holding feed for pigs, and
standing out of doors in all kinds of
weather. From some of them any
kinds OF gloss had disappeared. The
writer saw one man drive up with
q load of milk. The cans were In a
double row on narrow wagon. The
driver did not take trouble even to
lift his cans out of the wagon. He
simply pushed them over the side Of
the wagon and allowed them to fall
to the ground, where each can made
large dent in the dirt. This prob.
ably did not hurt the milk the cans
contained, but was an example of the
care given the cans. In this cream.
cry the owners of the cans, after
emptying them, filled them with swill
and started off home, the cans of
course being neither washed out nor
SNNalith W iAAA bhNNNA Ahs ~ 80 otiAN
to say that when the cans arrived at
the farm from which they came they
were not at once emptied and washed,
but were permitted to hold swill till
the next morning, when they were
washed out in very perfunctory sort
of way and again put to the use of
| conveying whole milk. Bad manage.
ment at the creamery was partly re.
| spCnsible for this.
The man that buys butter from a
poorly managed creamery is vic,
tim of laziness and dirt. Just give
him an inside view of what is going
on at the source of his butter produc.
tion, and there will be a change
! Farmers Review.