The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-09-06
WOMEN TIE BEST MIXERS.
why There's Mere Butter IN NE Cream
WHEN They Do tho MiAfing.

bix dairy farmer in Delaware county
was talking last wsek about Polish farm
hand who had been In this country only
three months and had proved himself t"
be far above the average laborer at nearly
every kind OF work on the farm, The farmer
had hired the man for year from Sept. l.,
and was talking about the prospects OF
his turning out well.
Il never saw a better man in the Held
he said, than Stanislaus has shown him
self TO he in the last two months he has
been working for neighbor johnson
never saw man who could do more work
or do il better. But the trouble is that he
has never learned to milk. l hear he has
done mans work on the farm since he
was IL years old, but ne never MIXED
COW.
"In his country milking is work for the
women to do. II Polish peasant man
is seen milking he is asked IL he has for
gotten to put on his petticoat. StanislaIs
says he Is perfectly wiling to learn and
shall set him at it the first day he is on my
place But don't know that he will make
a good mixer, willing as he is; and it he
fails l shall keep him at outside work.
I'm willing to make him an expert If it's
in him, but can't tolerate poor mixer
in my stables. Milking is the most par
ticular and important work in this dairy
region s%nnv .m.,,o. y =. r,,o,. ss.rn - think
that almost anybody can milk, but our
dairymen are beginning to learn better.
We are learning that superior mixer is
to be appreciated AS much as superior
COW; and it is more difficult to replace the
mixer than the cow To suit me mixer
ret ha nj. ha liz will tDo n
and he must be quiet and gentle, for any
disturbance at milking time causes loss
Of butter fat in the milk, In these essen
tials know that Stanislaus will be as good
as the best.
but an expert mixer must have one
other very important qualification. He
must be quick. The quicker the milking.
the richer the milk. If the work is done
well and completely. Two mixers, one
rapid and the OF er slow, will get about
the same quantity Of milk, but the former
will get the more fat. The difference be-
butter or. money. The milk fat or butter
fat, comes from the COW, but it is the eX-
pert mixer who gets most OF It..
I'm inclined to think" continued the
farmer, shat it might DO better for our
American dairy interests If milking were
European countries. Our dairymen who
have been over Europe are convinced that
the general use Of woman as mixers in
the foreign dairy districts is a decided adj
vantage: the women are gentler and
cleaner than the men and vastly better than
the average farm laborer. who does all
sorts of work during the day. The dairy
men Of England are doing everyt hing they
can to perpetuate the custom of employ
ing women instead Of men as mixers and
to maintain the efficiency Of milkmaids.
I'VE never hear of dairy show in Eng
land, nowadays, without it's popular milk
ing contest, in which the milkmaids COM
pete with one another. These contests are
the talk Of the British dairy districts and
are proving to be very useful. shall not
he surprised if, in the course of the next
ten years. the milkmaids Of America be-
come very much more numerous. Perhaps
lot of the prize winning maids of England
should be imported to arouse the emu
lation of their American sisters"