Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1902-12-20
To Prevent Mold in Butter Packages

The department Of agriculture OF
Canada sends the following: Reports
have been received that a few lots of
Canadian butter have been delivered
in the United Kingdom somewhat
spotted with mold on the butter paper
and between the box and the butter
That has occurred on saltless butter As
mold is a tiny plant or fungus, it is
important that butter makers and but
ter dealers should know by what
means they can entirely prevent its
growth on butter packages, butter pa
per or on the butter itself. Mold can
only come from pre-existing mold. or
from spores which serve the purpose
of seed or fruit for it's reproduction.
If the spores be destroyed mold can
not begin to grow. The conditions fav-
orable for its growth are a certain de-
gree of dampness and a moderately
low temperature-that is to say, tenn
perature below so degrees Some
forms of mold grow at temperatures as
low as 80 degrees F., or the freezing
point of water.
Formaline is an effective fungicide
or, in other words, it is a destroyer of
fungi and of the spores of fungi. A
weak solution of formalfne is effective
for the destruction of spores of mold.
A good course for the buttermaker to
follow is to prepare strong brine of
s2lt, adding one ounce of formaline to
one gallon of the brine. The butter
paper should be soaked in this solu-
ton. The inside of all butter pack
ages should also be rinsed with it.
The butter paper, while still wet with
the brine containing formaline, should
be placed inside the butter box, and
the butter Immediately packed in it.
The brine containing the fOrmaline
will destroy all spores of mold on the
butter paper and on the inside of the
box. A brine can be used for lon<s
period If it be boiled once a week.
AS the formaline evaporates during
the boiling process, it will be neces-
sary to add to every gallon Of brine,
after it has boiled and cooled, one
ounce of formaline.
Minnesota Fears a Butter Trust.
State Dairy Commissioner McCon-
nell declares that he fears the coop
erative creamery business of Mime
sofa will have to fight for it's existence
within the very near future. He sees
indications that great concerns are to
be formed in many of the larger cities
for the purpose of merging the dairy
producers of the state into a single
current supply for a centralized stor-
age plant. These concerns, he says,
will go about the business of killing
the cooperative creamery by the same
means which the other combines and
monopolies employed. They will offer
larger prices for cream than the
creameries can, until the creameries
are squelched, and then it will have
thinrS itS will q
able to dictate prices to the farmers.
gentleman interested in one concern
of this kind told Mr.. Mcconnell the
other day that within a year all the
cream within a radius of $50 miles of
the Twin Cities would be shipped to
these cities for manufacture. Mr.. Nc
ConneH says the dairy farmer has got
to face the problem. and that problem
is wholly in his own hands. If tsEl-
porary selfishness blinds him to his
own interests he will fall into the trap
to destroy the cooperative creamery,
and thereby deal a death blow to the
states great dairy reputation. Cream
cry associations are preparing to put
up an aggressive fight against this, by
the organization of creamery associa-
tions, and the state department is ass-
sisting them in this work-St Paul
Globe.
Inspection Increases the Milk Yield
Dairymen are often puzzled in try
ing to locate the cause of sudden fall
ing OFF in milk yield of their herds
from one day to another. Frequently
the yield will drop five or more pounds
per COW. An Indianapolis milkman is
reported as having experienced a sud
den shortage of forty gallons on the
day, which came about under peculiar
circumstances. He was delivering
ninety-two gallons, and one morning
met man in the road who requested
a sample of his milk; the next morn.
ing he had business at the city hall:
and the day following he delivered
only sixty-two gallons of milk Dairy
authorities have ascribed the falling
on in milk yield to various causes. but
we think none of them have ever ac-
cused milk inspector of drying up
the cows.-Jersey Bulletin.
To Test the OIeo Law.
At Cincinnati the oleo people have
begun efforts to have the oleo law
tested They hope to have it declared
unconstitutional A forty-peund pack
age Of oleomargarine, made contrary
to law, is the basis of the action. which
is by the general government to re-
cover fines under clause two of the
act Whichever way the federal court |
the case viii go to the United |