Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1903-03-12
! SEPARATOR CONTEST
Held as Advertised at the Residence of f. Hinze
On March 10th to Demonstrate the
Abilities of the Different
Makes.
LAVAL AND sHARPsEs MEN c.
The Contest Although Well Advertised Brought
Out Only Two Contestants DeLaval
Proves Superior At All
Points.

AS advertised in the two past issues
of both Of the Webster papers, the
cream separator contest was held at the
farm residence of Ferdinand Hinze,
nine miles southeast of Webster, Tues
day, March 10th, 1908.
Although all cream separator COM
panies had ample notice and opportun-
ity to be there with their machines to
show up and substantiate their wild
CLAIMS of best" ''handiest," "most
practical, /" closest SKINNER" and vari-
GUS other loud-sounding and equally
groundless statements regarding their
machines, there were present to partici-
pate in this contest only two different
makes of hand separators. These were
the Sharples people with their Tubular
No. A. (450 pound size), and the Della
val people with the BABY 10. 1" (45o
pound size).
Mr.. Hinze had gathered in about l 900
pounds of milk with which to give each
separator ample chance to test its abil-
ity of Swimming in different conditio@s
of milk liable to present themselves in
any farm dairy where hand separator
is used. 1t was proposed and requested
by Mr.. Hinzs that each separator be
given about one-half hours run on
milk at temperature Of 80 degrees
Fair. to represent the summer temper
allure of milk, and then TO have each
separator run about the same length of
time on milk at a temperature of 50
degrees Fair. to represent the winter
temperature of milk as it would come
from the barn directly to the separator
for separation. This proposition met
with favorable comment from the far
mers and dairymen present and was
readily agreed TO by the DoLaval repre-
sentative, but it was here that the
Sharples expert showed the calibre Of
his company, and machine as well, by
o bjecting to allow his machine to be
run with milk at temperature of 65
degrees Fair, which, by the way, is
condition the dairy farmer is almost
daily confronted with during the entire
winter months with his milk, as by the
time milk reaches the separator on a
cold day from the barn it is seldom
warmer than 65 degrees Fair, and in
case a separator is not capable of hand
ling milk at such temperature it would
have to be warmed over before separa-
ting. This being very vital point to
be considered by prospective buyer of
a hand separator, Mr.. Hinze only voiced
the sentiment of the crowd when he
fatty insisted that both machines skim
at such temperature, milk to be taken
from the same recepticle that they
might have equal chances.
The run on warm milk was made and
the time and weights of milk put
through each machine was kept account
o. by farmers from the crowd. The
statement here given IL from the gentle
man who kept the time and the run of
each machine:
Webster, S. D., March 10, 1908.
"This is to certify that / kept the
time at the contest between the Della
val Baby No. and the Sharples Tublar
No. A, at the farm residence of Ferdi-
nand Hinze; and that in 81 minutes the
Baby No / SKINNED 233 pounds of
milk, and in 361a minutes the Sharples
Tublar SKINNED 255 pounds of milk.
This milk was run at temperature of
IS degrees Fair. and was weighed and
taken from the same vat"
(Signed) H. w. Matchbox.
AS will be seen by the above figures
the Sharples Tubular machine run 255
pounds of milk in 49, minutes which
is at the rate of little less than 400
pounds to the hour. They claim their
machine to be able TO handle 450 pounds
per hour, so it is readily seen that they
were unable to substanciate their
claim as to capacity. While it will be
seen that the DeLayal Baby No. l run
233 pounds of milk in 81 minutes which
is at the rate of little more than 5l7
pounds per hour. The DeLaval people
claim their machine to be able to skim
$50 pounds per hour and they over
run their capacity 81 pounds per hour,
and, furthermore oyer-run the capacity
of the Sharples Tublar 81 per hour.
This was hard blow for the Sharples
people but as they were the ones to ask
for this contestit seems that they should
be accommodated, and they got it-in
the neck.
The test Of the SKINNED milk was left
entirely in charge of Mr.. @. s. Payne,
orr efficient buttermaker, who took
samples from each machine every five
minutes during the run and from these
he took the tests which appear below:
SKINNED milk from the DeLaval