Evening star., 1903-09-07
WOMEN THE BEST MIXERS.
Why There's More Butter in the Cream
When They Do the Milking.

From the New York Sum-
big dairy farmer in Delaware county
was talking last week about a Polish farm
nand who had been in this country only
three months and had proved himself to be
iar ABOVE the average laborer at nearly
every Kind of work on the farm. The
FARMER had hired the man for a year from
September 1. and was talking about the
prospects Of his turning out we'll
Il never saw a better man in the field"
he said. than Stanislaus has shown him
self to be in the last two months he has
been working for neighbor johnson. I never
saw man who could do more work or do
II better. But the trouble is that he has
never learned to milk. I hear he has done
mans work on the farm since he was
t"elVe years old but ne never MIXED a
COW.
In his country milking is work for the
women to do. If a Polish peasant man is
seen milking he is asked If he has forgotten
~ 70 pu. on MS petticoat. Stanslaus says he
is perfectly willing to learn. and I shall set
MIN at 1t the first day he is on nv place
But don know that he will make good
niiKeI, wiling as he is; and If he fails l
snall Keep him at outside work I'm will
ing TO make him an expert If it's in him
but L can't tolerate a poor mixer in nv
staples Milking Is the most particular and
important work in this dairy region
Many American farmers seem to think
.hat almost anybody can milk but our
dalrymen are beginning to learn better
We are learning that a superior mixer ie
10 De appreciated much as sunerior
COW; and it is more difficult to replace the
mixer than the COW. To suit me a mixer
must mus oe clean or the milk will not be clean;
ana ne must be quiet and gentle for anv
disturbance at milking time causes loss Of
butter fat in the milk. In these essentials
-, . Know that Stanislaus will be as good as
But an expert mixer must have one
other very important qualification He
must be quick. The quicker the mill,ine
the richer the milk, if the work is done well
ana completely. Two mixers, one rand
and the other SLOW will get about tba sapa
quantity of milk but the former will OCT
the more fat. The difference between a
rapid and slow milker counts in butter or
money The milk fat, or butter fat. comes
from tne COW, but 1t is the expert mixer
who gets most of it,
I'm inclined to think continued 49,
Iarmer that 1t might be better for orr
American dairy interests If milking ware a
part OF womens work, as it is in MANY
european countries Our dairymen who
have been over Europe are convinced that
the general use of women as mixers In the
foreign dairy districts is decided advan-
tage; the women are gentler and cleaner
than the men and vastly better than the
average farm laborer who does ALI sor+s nf
work during the day The dairvman of
England are doing everything they can to
perpetuate the custom of employing women
instead of men as mixers and to maintain
the eff1ciency of milkmaids
We never hear Of dairy show in Enp-
land nowadays without its popular millxins
contest, In which the milkmaids comnate
with one another. These contests are the
talk of the British dairy districts and are
proving to be very useful. I shall not he
surprised II. IN the course of the next ten
years, the milkmaids Of America haoon,a
very much more numerous. Perhans lot
OF the prize-winning maids of England
should be imported to arouse the emnia tin,,
of their American sisters.' 'oii