Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1903-03-11
DELAWARE COUNTY FARMERS
INSTITUTE.
Continued from last week.
How I Care for MY Milk.
By Seth Severance.

Being requested by Mr.. Keiffer to
write paper on the subject of "How !
Care for My MILK" will say that don't
see why some other person, who has had
more experience in the care of milk
than 1 have, was not selected.
There are great many things about
the care of milk that are overlooked OF
neglected by most of US. insist that
cows should have access to good pure
water, and in the winter the chill
should be taken off so the COWS will not
be obliged to drink ice cold water. Also
that the hay or corn fodder and the
grain ration should be sweet, not musty
or tainted.
Milk cans should not be used if the
tin is rusty on the inside of the can.
And great care should be taken in
washing the cans. Near the top of the
can where the neck is fastened on tc
the body Of the can is seam, and there
will collect cheesy matter, which, il
not attended TO will tsint and spoil
all of the milk put in the can.
We have q thin sharpened stick which
we use to get the thick milk and other
things which gather in the seams out
with.
When through washing the cans,
scald them well, and that will leave
them sweet and nice for use. In the
summer time we have an inclined
bench on which we put the cans SO that
the sun and air can get into them.
In the summer we always put our
nights milk in water tank, not where
the stock drink, but In the supply tank,
which is just deep enough SO the water
will come up to the top of the handles
on the cans.
If the water tank is not full we stir
the milk with a thin wooden paddle,
which we think causes the animal
heat to come out of the milk.
We do not put covers on the cans un-
til morning when ready for creamery.
In the winter is the time when the
good care of milk is more necessary
than In the summer months.
Our nights milk now, we put in q
grain room where 1t does not freeze,
and in the morning take both milkinRs
and put them on the south porch Of
the house, and unless it is very cold
1t is left there all day. And at night
we put the cans In the kitchen. The
second nights milk we put in the grain
room and with the next mornings milk
1t is all sent to the creamery.
The men who draw our milk should
cover the cans so the milk would not
freeze; but some of them don't as the
milk shows when it comes back to US
On very cold days the cream will
freeze in the covers and fill them nearly
ful, then when the warm skim milk is
put in 1t thaws it, and the cream shows
IN large, yellow chunks when we empty
the milk at home.
There should be some way of thsw-
Ing the cream out of the covers at
the creamery, or have the men who
draw our milk cover and keep from
freezing.
All milk producers should take the
best of care of their milk; for the but
termsker at the creamery cannot make
good butter out of poor milk.
When we used to keep our milk at
home and make butter to sell on the
market, we did not set our milk pans in
the COW barn; but in the cleanest and
best place We had. We try to take
good care of our cows, not turn them
out very early in the forenoon and put
them back in the barn in good season;
bed them well and try to keep them
clean. Give them good sweet food.
Take good caro- of your milk after 1t is
put In the cans, and your buttermaker
VIII always have q smile on his face
wnen no meets you. He don't like to
send word to the patrons to cool their
milk or wash their cans.
Because sometimes person will get
offended over some notice sent him
from the creamery and then he won't
try to care for his milk
l have heard men remark that most
any K ind Of milk was good enough to
send to the creamery, as the separatora
would take out all Of the dirt.
CLEANLINESS is next to Goodness" is
. good motto for all dairymsn.