The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1902-03-01
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i Gentlemen other year has almost
passed. Has It been 4 profitable one?
Do You think I am doing my best to
serve your I am trying to. Are you
all doing your part? I fear, not. The
larger number Of you are doing well;
you bring your milk to the creamery
nicely strained in bright, clean cans,
and it is pleasure to a buttermaker
to receive it, as from such milk he can
make a quality of butter that will sell
for the top price in any market. But
others, ! am sorry to say, do not take
proper care of their milk and do not
bring it to the creamery in proper
shape. A great deal Of milk is brought
IN dirty cans, not strained at home,
and no effort made to keep straws or
nth out OF 1t. Some Of the cans look
as it seldom or never washed and a
sticky filth may be scraped off of them,
both inside and outside. Do you ex-
pect that can make good butter out
OF such milk? I cannot; neither can
anyone else. I can strain the milk, run
it through the separator, but no but
termaker on earth can remove the
tainted and filthy smell that milk gets
from unclean barns or bad smelling
barns.
But you will say: II get as much
for my milk as my neighbor who takes
extra care of his milk while I don't
care how it reaches the creamery.
dump 1t in the weigh can and let 'er go
Gallagher" But you are mistaken.
Your milk will not test so, we'll and,
besides, every can Of poor milk that
goes into the weigh can reduces the
average price of milk at the cream
cry. Some of our patrons would be
Mortified if they saw the dirt and filth
l remove from my strainer and separa-
tor. Does anybody think that bar
of soap, a chunk of stable manure. po-
tatoes, dish rags, hair pins, pan cakes,
soaking in your milk can over night or
longer will improve the flavor of milk?
have found all of the above, and more
in the strainer of the weigh can. How
can good butter be made from such
milk? If I should grade the milk in
two lots and make butter from each
lot separately, giving each lot the same
attention, would you expect each lot
to sell for the same price? If you did
you would be disappointed. The but
ter made from the poor milk would sell
for one-half as much as that from the
good milk.
No buttermaker on earth can change
the favor. If milk is off flavor the
butter will be. When you send your
jar to the creamery for butter for your
own use, what would you say If I
should put some Of the dirt I find in
your milk on top Of the butter in your
jar. You would say, ooh! that dirty,
nasty buttermaker, what does he
mean? Is this the proper way to send
me butter?" You would return the
butter to that creamery and be mad
besides. If the buttermaker would re-
turn your dairy milk to your home he
would do his duty, although it would
make you mad. Now, my friends,
please help me to make good butter.
Keep your cans and milk clean and
away from the dirty barns and dirty
tanks Of water as much as possible.
Strain your milk carefully; when you.
go to milk your cows rub off their legs
and udders carefully and clean, and you
will see great improvement in the
milk and butter.