Mower County transcript., 1904-08-31
HAND SEPARAT0RSS
From the Butterinaker's Standpoint +
A Glooming Picture Whichs IS
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I II. N. Slater, a former Minnesota
:buttermaker, now for some time in
charge Of the creamery work at, Indiana
dairy school, Lafayette, gives in=Cream-
Eery Journal his views on hand separator
>buttermakinga as follows: = ...t.s
~~ We are up against the real thing and
we hope the manufacturers and their
statesmen will soon come with an easier
problem than we now have to deal
with-the hand separator. It has ruin
ed the grade of our butter wherever it's
use has been applied. The creamery
business must change from time to
time, and as it was time to make a
change, we took up with the hand
separator, but the change has been to
our sorrow. About every so often
people long for change and they must
have it, even in the creamery business.
Yes, even the salt men were sick of the
old whole milk system and remember
salt man who once came to our
Minnesota state convention at Fair
mont and told the boys what a fine
thing hand separator was and what
it was going to do for the crt amery
business of the country. The writer
wanted to throw him down stairs but
the whole crowd only laughed at us. 1t is
all very we'll for some fellow who is not
in the creamery and who does not have
to meet face to face with the troubles
arising from the hand separator, to tell
US what fine thing they are, but we
buttermakers are helpless. The only
thing for us to do is to study out some
method by which we can tide over un-
til the time comes for another change,
which I hope will not be very long.
As the farmers delight in buying
machinery, let us hope for combined
machine which will do the work of a
half dozen silos, a cement floor, milk
ing machine, a separator, a churn and
+ butter printer. Then the dairy can
consist of not less than 200 COWS and
the buttermakers can all turn them
selves into skillful feeders, bookkeepers
and inanciers. Then we will make
the dairy business profitable and run it
along sanitary lines.
find the poor farmer too often feeds
the COWS only that which the market
doesn't care for. Then he runs what
little milk he receives through the hand
separator, sets it behind the kitchen
stove in winter, ,and in the warm weather
it can generally be found in the watering
trough surrounded by ducks and other
live stock. Then, as he goes to town
once or twice week, if he isn't in too
much Of hurry, he will hunt up the
cream and take it to the latest i'm
proved creamery.
While this statement may sound too
strong to those who are running the
business on theory, the man who is
dealing with hand separator cream and
trying to make butter out of it will
agree with the writer.
The argument may be advanced that
we reject such cream. This is all very
we'll, but our answer would be: Are
you so situated that you wish to retire
from the business? If you are, by all
means start to sending the cream home.
The farmer while he was delivering
whole milk, understood that the milk
had to be delivered in sweet condi-
tion so it could be separated Then a
can of milk sent back home only meant
a loss of about SOC to him, but try the
same patron by sending home can of
cream and mote his answer. It would
read; something like this: TT must be
sour before you churn it, and~if you
don't want it all you have to do is to
say so; I will ship it to the big central
plant and they will be- glad*:to.ta take 1t
and pay me for it, @'' S$'.~
I With the introduction of the hand
separator our creameries have. found it
absolutely necessary to pasteurize cream
in order to try to make the same grade
of butter they did under the whole
milk SYSTEM. Now: then, all this bother
and expense must be laid up against
the hand separator and still: we are
making hard struggle to keep: the
quality of our butter above the so
mark, while with whole milk and half
the work we had no trouble in reaching
95, especially dins June, pt:-ss .,r,esy> "
What are the conditions that We
have to deal with at the weigh room
door in taking in hand separator cream?
Patron NJ. 1 comes in with nice, sweet
cream, but too thick to pour we'll, and
it is necessary to rinse the can out in
water Wa have tharefora ininrad tho