The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1903-07-10
CREAM sEPARAToRs.

CREAM SEPARATIONS.
Only yesterday, as 1t we're, cream
separators were looked upon as too
complicated and costly to ever become
common on the farms Of this country.
Now they have been so greatly simpi-
hed and so much reduced in cost that
the farmer who keeps five or more
COWS cannot afford to do without one.
1t is true that comparatively few
farmers have so far bought a separ'
ator, and that their use on farms Is
stlll very exceptional, but that does
not at all alter the fact that the sep
arator while making it possible to
keep more COWS on the farm, without
adding to the number Of hours neces-
sary to do the work; 1t makes 1t posi-
BILE for the farm dairy to successfully
compete with the creamery and pays
for itself long before 1t becomes worn
In the additional amount of butter that
may be made from a given quantity Of
milk, also makes 1t easily possible to
make the butter more wholesome,
Some recent experiments along this
line gave very interesting results. No
matter how much care is exercised,
more or less foreign matter will get In
to the milk from the time it is drawn
from the udder until it is finally used,
and always there may be found bac.
terra Of various kinds.
Some Of the impurities found in
milk are solids and these it has been
found are readily removed by the sep
arator. While it has not been possible
to remove all bacteria from milk by
separating it, it has been found that
separated milk contains very many
fewer bacteria than that which has not
| been separated.
Separating the milk and thus remov-
ing from it the solid impurities and
much of the other foreign matter
which is carried out with the slime
that is always found as a residue in
the separator, and then removing, add
! ing cream to the skim milk until it
contains the desired percentage Of but
terfat, is method followed by good
many milk dealers who desire to furn
! ich an approximately clean product. =,
Under st1cle tests t1is milk has
been found to contain from less than
! half to less than 20 per cent as many
bacteria as was found in milk that had
not been run through the separator
The additional value of the skim
milk for feeding, the freedom from
slavery to the milk pan and the facil-
ity with which conditions can be cen,
trolled all point to the separator as
one of the absolute necessities to doing
the best dairy work on the farm
There was a time when pianos, sew.
Ing machines, reapers, sullty plows ana
a hundred other things were looked
upon as easily dispensed with luxuries
on the farm. All these have come to
be everyday articles on the farm and
in the farmhouse. The time will
soon come when separators will be just
as generally used as sewing machines,
ana then we will look back and won,
der how it was possible to get along
| without them
Any ono who has had an opportunity
to examine separator after it had
been used AMI before it had been clean.
ed will not care to make butter con.
taining any part of the solids found
there and at least a portion Of these
solids are incorporated in butter made
from cream that is separated By the
| gravity process.
The hand separator is within the
reach Of every one who keeps five OF
more COWS, and it is to be hoped it's use
will become universal within a very
phor- time, because such use would ad5
| to the whol5someness of the products
Of the dairy and to the profits of tia
dairyman.-Da and Creamery.
Stage superstitiors die hard but the