Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1902-08-27
ATALK ON CREAM SEPARAf0RS.
Dr. Porter Tells Of the Value Of Them and the Man
ner in Which They Should be Handled.

ner in Which They Should be Handled
EDITOR CENSOR: A few days ago
celebrated the tenth an iversary OF my
purchase of De Laval cream separator,
Baby No .. paid $115 for it, and its
capacity was 260 lbs of milk per hour.
| believe it was the first small separator
! purchased in Vernon county. kept
| 35 cows and it took me over an hour 20
| run through their milk. Down in New
| England met man who said he had
drilled the milk tube larger in his BABY
| No. and that it skinned clean. had
askei an agent previously Ghy that tube
could not be filed larger and he SAID lt
could. and that the marh'~ would skim
clean. The reason Il be was not
made larger was that t we're giving
us capacity enough fol money we
paid for it. | bought - at-tall ME
and enlarged the capacit nine to al
most 400 lbs an hour, an 2 publish
ed the fact in Hoard's Dali q n. DAIRY
me~ III over the world : ny letter
and filed their tubes out. machines
were then all right to Skin : Z warm
from the COW but might q I'm cola
milk clean. Since that ii 3 le COM
pat has increased the caps o ot tner
machines and feel that 9 ps my
humble letter had something n 0 with
the increase Of capacity OF these excen-
ent and durable machine
A great many separators nave come
into Vernon county within the past ten
years. The Davis separator came nrsI
and their agents unloaded lot OF hara
turning machines nickel plated aDonhl'
nations that would wear the man out
Il, 49, 4 han
cd States separators very well made
and easv running machines. The Amer
lean came next without any ,over to tine
bowl. Il turned easily and vas simple
in construction. Along with these ma
chimes came another separator whicn
found buyers The Aquatic separator,
it was called. One has to water the
milk to get the cream to rise IN this
aquatic contraption. Experiment sta
tions have shown time and again that a
shotgun" can is Just rs good as this
labyrinthean affair. Instead OF paying
Sc for this thing invest in shotgun cans.
Do the hundreds of farmers in the coun-
ty who have bought these high priced,
centrifugal separators realize that they
cave finely made machines2 Some men
turn hem and treat them as they would
corn shelter. That Is an expensive
practice. Better treat them as you DO
any finely made machine. A separator
should be run at the speed intended IN
the directions. The DeLaval crank ls
TO be turned about ~ revolutions per
minute. How shall one determine the
rapiditv with which hetlrns the crank
You can tire yourself with watch but
it Ia not convenient always. Let me ten
you what TO do. Take an ounce bullet,
d little chunk of lead or any Little weight
and attach about 1S inches of small wire
or string TO it. ruspend the wire ana
weight from wooden pin driven into
the wall, or overhead so that the weight
hangs foot away from the separator
crank Shorten the wire until the weight
when swinging like pendulum goes to
and fro 40 times minute. Yeur weight
will be about 16i inches from the pin.
This pendulum when hit will swing 40
times q minute until Won have separated
can full Of milk. If you want it TO 60
80 times minute, simply shorten your
wire My eleyen-y year-old boy now sep
arates the milk of 80 cows, and by using
this pendulum runs the machine cor
rectly. Before used 1t | found one
man turning 20 and another 6S revolu
tions per minute, instead of 30 The
ltlldfdl ultC1AitS nave GOluA DU vi 4O
tin discs or plates within the bowl
Rival companies make much talk about
| these dish pans, and the trouble of
cleaning them. We who have run this
excellent little machine, the pioneer of
all centrifugal separators, and the peer
| of all of them, know that 1t is very
| little work 10 keep clean these valuable
parts of this machine. We know that
| they are an aid to clean skimming and
| also that in them nearly all the filth of
! the mill is gathered The dung, dirt,
blood, slime and milk fibrin are left in
the bowl and do not go into the cream
| AID milk az in most other machines.
| do not believe in allowing dirt TO mix
with the milk in the pail. BY carefully
washing every cows udder we find very
| little dirt IN the separator bowl, but yet
| liz spite Of washing udders and strainipg
| the milk there viii be a little iirt enter
the bowl and remain there The De-
Laval separator is the Jns used in clean
ing milk at the large milk depots in
cities Ii is shown ty the experiment
stations that all the makes of separators
skim warm, freshly drawn milk clean.
but not all of them will skin cold milk.
II is surprising how many hanG separa-
tors have peen purchased in this county
recently. From all directions separator
cream from the farms Is being shipped
to La Crosse.
II that La Crosse butter and cheese
company does the fair thing with the
farmers in the future, it is going to have
mighty trade in Western Wisconsin.
] cannot tell what it has cost me for oil
and repairs, but in ten years think /
have spent $50 for oil and repairs on my
machine. 1t H. however, about as good
as new as | spent over 800 on 1t last
spring. l have only good words for the
little machine, and the company which
has always been fair In its charges for
repairs. A hand separator is a great
, labor saver and ths man with ten well
fed cows need not hesitate to buy a good
one. G. V. PORTER.
Briskly at II