The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1902-03-13
Especially Now the Butter and
cheese Season.
IS VERY FAST APPROACHING
The Necessity is Urgent for the Very
Best Milk.
MANY CHEESE MAKERS COMPLAIN,
Milk May Hereafter be Tested at the
Factories and Quality May
Determine the Price.
5 VERY FAST APPROACHING.
iANY CHEESE MAKERS COMPLAIN,

The following communication has
been handed into The Pilot and will be
OF interest to the farmers:
Is it right that a man should get as
much for hog that was starved as his
neighbor gets for one which he has tax
en- care 10 feed for fat and taking cal e
that the hog does well and shall not
want for anything that will enhance
the value thereof Just so with cows.
A COW that is fed we'll and taken care Of
will produce more milk and larger per
cent of pure butter fat than the COW
that is allowed to rough it through.
Now if we can't get the butter fat IN
milk we don't want that COW. There
are plenty of cows through the country
that are eating all they make and all
the rest of the herd | tested COW a
couple of weeks ago in Fond du Lac
county, that only tested IA per cent.
Such cow is not worth the water she
drinks, for cheese factory, and she only
gave about Is lbs. of milk per day. Let
every man get rid of such cows and re-
place them with cows that will give 40
lbs per day and test per cent; then the
cheesemaker can give you pound OF
cheese from 10 lbs. of milk aud the
cheese will have some richness But
however rich the milk may be some of
the farmers will stand still on skimming
and watering. One man will say II l
can't take what cream off the can L want
for my coffee, | will take it to another
factory. Such men are no good to any
factory and the sooner we find them out
it will better for the Dairy World. And
just 80 with fetching impure, unwhole
some milk to the factory. If one cheese
maker does get up spunk enough to re-
ject poor milk rs it comes, the patrons
will forth and blow and damn the
cheese maker and say the milk is good
aud if he will not take it in he will go
to another factory, and of course the
maker at the other factory is so glad to
get patron from his neighbor factory
that he will take it in and encourage
the patron to go on in his dirty filthy
ways. Now such makers should never
be allowed to step inside of factory,
for they are unworthy of the name
Cheese maker. And Sc long as this
work goes on, so long will the standard
of Wisconsin cheese be 50 inferior and
unless the plan of paying by the test is
adopted, the cheese will not be full
cream. l am safe in saying that there
is not one-half of the factories in my
territory that are making full cream
cheese, although they are branded such
1t is a shame that a man who can fur
nish 40 per cent, milk will knowingly
skim his night milk down to 25, and his
morning milk will test As and then have
nerve to stand up and say that it is lust
as the COW gave it, The principle of IA
man trying to lay the skimming of the
milk TO the poor COW which is doing all
she can to give good, rich, wholesome
milk. Now factorymen AS soon as you
adopt the test plan, you will do away
with this dishonest practice, because no
man is going to draw water to the fact
ory just for the sake of having his can
~'a little fuller than his honest neighbours
And he is not going to draw milk to the
factory and take 32 cents per hundred
less than his neighbor when if delivered
as 1t comes from the COW will bring him
as much per cent. as his neighbor Jones'
Fellow Dairymen, remember that for
every l 10. of butter fat you take from
your milk, will decrease the yield of
cheese II lbs. to the hundred of milk
Too many cheese makers are telling
their patrons that they might as well
take off the can what cream they want
because it all goes out in the whey tank.
II this is true with come cheese maker g.
1t shows they do not understand their
business. And when man is making
up 3.5 per cent. milk and there is, g cf
one per cent. going out in the whey, he
certainly does not understand handling
milk, and am ashamed to say l have
found such makers. There is another
bad habit practiced among the farmers,
and that is milking without cleaning
the cows udder. They will start to
milk and wash the mud and manure off
the udder into the pail with the milk,
and when the milk comes to the factory
1t is utterly unfit for manufacture. Now
If you will still insist in doing this kind