The Minneapolis journal., 1903-12-18
CREAM SEPARATOR TEST
Minnesota Dairymen's Committee
Renders Report of National In
terest and Importance.
Tells How Much the Various Separa-
tors Save and Awards the Palm
to the Sharples-It Skins
More Than Twice as
Clean as Any
Other.
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FairmOnt, Mimi, Dec. 1S.-The |
most important event in the Minnesota
Dairymen's convention held, here this
week, was the contest over close
sklmming between the manufacturers
of the various cream separators. This
is "a question which interests every
dairyman and farmer in the country
The claims of the various manufac-
turers are, to say the least, confusing
to the average purchaser. The result
is consequently of great Importance
to the dairy interests of the state. The
test was made in public. over a hum
dred of the leading creamery men
watching it with the closest attention.
The four leading makes of cream
separators were in the contest. The
judges were Robert Crickmore, man.
ager of the Cooperative Creamery,
Pratt, Mimi; A. w. Trow, president
of the Minnesota State Dairymen's as
sociation, and e. J. Henry, traveller for
| the Diamond Crystal Salt company,
and an acknowledged expert with the
Babcock tester.
The matter grew out of the claim
made by the Deere & Weber Com
| pany of Minneapolis, who are north
western agents of the Sharples Cream
| Separator, that this separator would
skim more than twice as close as any
| other separator on the market; and
further, that the saving would pay
for the machine in the course of one
! years ordinary use.
In order that the matter may be
| fully understood 7 h e j Journ a
gives herewith the challenge of the
other manufacturers and the official
report Of the judges.
The claims of the Sharples are more
than borne out by the figures and
| of inc in, "a
| Deere & Webber establishment in
Minneapolis to-day over the result.
| The challenge reads as follows:
| The Challenge.
Fairnont, Mimi, Dec. 16, 1908.
| TO the Agent Or Agents Of the
| Sharples Cream Separator
Gentlemen: In the catalogue pub
lished by the Sharples Cream Sepa
rator company with the Deere-Web-
ber attached and used by them in
their trade catalogue, on pages "a and
rs, we note the following:
Notwithstanding the fact that we
resort to no complications whatever,
we will place a Sharples Tubular
Dairy Separator beside the best sepa-
rator of the best other make in exist
ence, and absolutely guarantee to cut
in half any record for a clean skim
ming which such other machine may
be able to make.
"On hot milk or cold milk, fresh
milk or stale milk, cows milk or
goats milk, rich milk or poor milk
thick skimming or thin skimming,
we will guarantee the Tubular to
skim so as to leave but one-half the
fat in the skim milk that any other
machine in existence will leave under
| the same conditions.
The Report.
This is what the judges say about
the cream separator test:
eff the other machine Skins to, one
| tenth, the Tubular will skim to half
a tenth; if the other Skins to two
hundredths, the Tubular will skim to
one e-hundredth; if the other Skins to
one-hundredth, the Sharples will skim
to a half.
"Furthermore, we will guarantee
that when used regularly in a dairy
| proportioned to the capacity of the
| machine, that the Sharples Tubular
will give enough more butter from
| the same milk than any other known
machine will give, to pay not less than
per cent yearly interest on the whole
cost Of the separator
We, the undersigned, offer this as
fair consideration to enable you to
prove what is contained in the above
assertion. We agree to furnish
enough milk free of charge and agree
to use the same quality and tempera-
ture of milk. We offer to make two
runs of 200 pounds each with each
machine The first run to be at a
temperature of 70 degrees; the sec
ond run to be at temperature of
So degrees. No machine to skim cream
Of a density of less than 80 per cent
butter fat. We agree to run our ma
chine of as nearly equal claim ca
pacity according to book of instruc-
tons. The runs to be made in a
building known as MACHINERY Hall, -
in Fairmont, Minnesota, on December
, 18th, 1903. Competent judges to be
selected to determine the results.
To show our good intentions we
hand the treasurer Of the Minnesota
State Dairy Mems Association GER
tificate Of deposit against the Martin
County National Bank, Fairmont,
Minnesota, for One Hundred ($10O)
Dollars, said one hundred dollars to
be used as the said association may
wish, if you can prove your claims
as published in said catalogue.
This offer to be accepted or reject
ed at once in the presence of not less
than three witnesses.
, The challenge was signed by the
representatives Of the parties in inter-
est. and was accepted by the repre-
sentative Of the Deere & Weber Com
pany.
Fairmont. Mimi, Dec. II. 1908.
We, the undersigned, Judges in the
above contest, hereby certify that at the
run made Of the following separators, in
pursuance of the above agreement, was as
follows:
; AS milk could be obtained for only one
7 run, it was made at a temperature Of
from 62 to 70 degrees each ma chine being
given 200 pounds under identically the
same conditions. The tests were as fol
l lows: ~--.---.--- --.--...-. ..-.--- .-..-
SKINNED Milk. Cream Test
l Abba ... IT'S 32.5
5 United States 80. .125 so.
Empire ......... .450 1875.
: Sharples ...... .O5 25.
l (Signed) Robert Crickmore,
A. w. Trow,