Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1902-12-27

Recently we gave In these columns a
paper from Prof. +. y, Liniield OF Lo-
gan ON the use and value OF the cream
separator on the farm. The following ex'
oo,lent article Is from practical farm
ers wife, Mrs. Tacy y. Matthews VINO
thus relates her experience in the
Practical Farm in dairyins both WIN
and without the aid Of the cream sep
arator. showing ts great economical
utility In the small dairy She says
some years ago creamery started
in ouT neghborhood and we bagn send
ing milk TO it, At drst the price pald
for milk was quite good, sometimes ruA-
ming over dollar per hundred, and tn
milk was tested twice a week believe
ms was carefully and correctly done,
Nynllo this was the case We thought tho
dairy business would prove prontable,
and manned to Increase the number oil
COWS. Ii was not long, however, betolt
|, the price OF milk went so low as oiteli
\ 20 be but 80 cents per hundred FOR mil's
\ testing ( per cent. And no matter now
, good the COWS were, the test OF none oi
: Inc fn,ners would 90 above per cent
while some seldom reached that point.
Our test was always marked ~ W.
sold some milk In the village. This was
nut into Mason's glass jars ana tht
cream came one-third the distance down
the Jar. Persons buying milk OF US
cl. lined 20 be unable to obtain suCh flch
milk elsewhere We decided to emu d
some cream ourselves and see II We
were only making Z pounds Of butte
per hundred AS a result we found We
made between . and 6 pounds instead
We Immediately stopped sending TO tht
creamery and began making butter IN
the old fashioned way. We decided cold
water was good enough separator f0i
us, n II would give us between one ana
two pounds more butter per hundred
We continued to make butter in this
way for year or so; and ! confess We
were prejudiced against serarators
One evening. just before milking time, a
team stopped at the house and q youns
man asked permission to separate ous
evenings milk for Us, We told him It
vase useless to waste his time in show
ing his separator to MS, as we were well
r"ed with our spring house, and de-
stird no change. But at last we gave
I'm. and he set the machine, separated
the milk and washed II In less time
than Il would have taken TO have
SKINNED the same quantity, and wash
cd and scalded the pans containing
Il. This was the first time we
had seen hand machine and
the quality Of the cream was so mt
that We felt sorry 10 see him replace
the separator In his wagon the next
incoming. We began TO think, perhaps,
thaTin the far distant future we would
buy one. We did not KEEP many COWS,
and had not stable room to increase tbs
nun her very much SO we reasoned
tina, II would not pay US 10 put so much
money into such tool. The agent
noticed we were pleased so he saw to l,
we ala not forget him nor the firm he
represented. At last we allowed him 10
leave one OF his hand machines
on trial To try II as money saver we
exactly divided our milk for a few milk.
ings, putting one-half into pans ana
treating II as usual. while The other half
was separated. When the Churning
gas completed the scales showed the
following record: 60 ounces of butter
from milk set away. and 81 ounces from
same quantity separated. a gain OF "
ounces In favor OF the separator Pork
sold low, and milk does not fatten very
much anyhow. 1t would make large
hole In the corn pile before the pigs
would be ready 10 convert into pork,
even II fed so much butter, so We con-
cluded not TO furnish them such large
per cent OF cream any longer, and Ia
n few days the separator was our own.
We have used the separator since,
and have had no expense in connection
with IT, except for the oil. There seems
to be nothing to get out OF order except