The Colfax gazette. [volume] (Colfax, Wash.) 1893-1932, 1902-08-22
DAIRY AND CREMERY
PRODUCERS OF PURE MILK ARE
ENTITLED TO CREDIT.
with the Expansion OF the Cream
Trade Cttyward There Is a Call
For Greater Care in the Quality
of Cream Produced.


of Cream Produced.
AT the Cooper sale at Linden Grove.
Coopersburg, Pa, on May 30-31 t. w.
Lawson was heavy purchaser of Jer-
seys for his great farm, Dreamwold,
Scituate, Mass. Among his purchases
was Flying Fox, the star Of the sale. at
$500.
Flying Fox has been a great star In
the cattle world since he was pro-
claimed champion winner over the Is
land in Jersey In August, 1899 says
American Cultivator. He was brought
here in January with about forty of
his older sons and daughters. very
many of which have received prizes In
American exhibitions as well as In
their native island.
Flying Fox in winning the champion
ship succeeded to the mantle of his
sire, Golden Ferns Lad. No other bull
ever commanded such popularity as
Flying Fox, with the exception of his
with patronage his owners forfeited all
his prize winnings at the Royal show
and paid his fines in order to raise his
fee above The limit prescribed by the
society for 'ulls taking its prizes.
In addition to Flying Fox Mr.. Law
son secured the cream of the sale In
about twenty-five other purchases of
choice Jerseys ranging in price from
$500 to $1,000 each. 1t is evident that
Mr.. Lawson intends that Dreamwold
shall have a reputation second to no
breeding farm in It's choice Jersey cat
tie.
The Prize Butter.
l am often annoyed and sometimes
amused when butter maker tells how
he made the prize butter, says l.. w.
Lightly In National StOckman. He
starts off by saying, II took a batch of
milk"-presumably any old milk that
happened to be about at the time-and
then by his occult manipulations and
Vaccinations he made this prize but
ter. The farmer or dairyman who pro-
duced the milk never gets an atom of
credit. Nevertheless If the butter hon
estly deserved the prize fully half the
credit belongs to the producer of the
milk. No butter maker can make an
extra fine article of butter unless he
has milk Of the same quality. The
COWS must be clean, and they must be
healthy. The feed they eat, the wa
ter they drink, the air they breathe,
must be pure, clean and correct The
mixer must be cleanly in his habits
and way of doing his work. The milk
pals and cows must be as clean as
cold and boiling hot water can make
them. The milk must be intelligently
and properly handled and delivered,
and all of this certainly requires half
of the work and half of the know how.
Pure Milk.
To produce pure milk 1t is necessary
TO start at the milk pail. OF course the
the COWS brushed and washed and the
mixers clothes clean and kept special
ly for this purpose. A covered pail to
avoid perpendicular droppings Is the
best. The tendency at present In the
cities IS toward pure milk, not more
butter fat. In one days test made by
the New York board of health of forty
samples of milk taken at the Jersey
City ferry many of them contained
over 100000 bacteria to each cubic CEN
timeter of milk. Quite few had over
100000, and the lowest contained be-
tween 100000 and 100000. Yet one
large firm which has two creameries in
the country and retails $4,000 quarts
per day has been able to reduce bacte-
ria from 25OO00 to 10000 per cubic
centimeter.
Demand For Sweet Cream.
With the expansion of the cream
trade cityward there is a call for great
er care in the quality of the cream
produced, and as it has to undergo the
test of time and age before it reaches
the consumer it must be in better con-
dition for city trade than for creamery
work. The consequence is that only
certain quality of cream can be &C
cepted by the dealer, and IL it con-
tains more than a certain amount Of
acid it should be rejected.
The sweeter the cream the better for
city consumption, for 1t has to stand
not only the trial of shipping, but also
being held in the dealers refrigerator
as we'll as frequently In the somewhat
warm icebox of the consumer, and the
result is q severe trial on the quality Of
the cream unless 1t is started from the
creamery in a fresh, sweet state.
Cream for shipping should be received
and graded by the amount of acid that
1t contains, and until that is done there
will be the usual complaint from the
city consumer of sour cream.-Hoard's
Dairyman.
Condensed MIX Plant.
r. r. Rogers, who is one Of the lar
gest manufacturers of condensed milk
machinery in the United States, has
Just built a factory at Marshall, Ill,
for the Marshall Condensing company.
1t is now in successful operation. The
Southern Michigan Condensed Milk
company at Morenci, Mich, has also
been supplied with complete outfit
by Mr.. Rogers. He says that from
present indications there will be a
large amount of work In his line next
winter.
Stops the Cough