The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1904-01-15

1T Skins More Than
Twice ~ Clean a.
Any Other.
Special to Minneapolis Journal.
FAIRMoNT, Mimi, Dec, 18. The
most important event IN the Minnesota
Dairymen's convention held here this
week, was the contest over close skim
ming between the manufacturers of the
various cream s~eparatOrs. This is a
| question which interests every dairy
| man and farmer in the country. The
claims of the various manufacturers
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 hun
ired 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
Assault CtloH. IN Is - = I1Cl IL dNCltI
for the Diamond Crystal Salt Com
| pany, and an acknowledged expert
with the Babcock tester.
The matter grew out of the claim
made by the Deere & Webber 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
nfhnr Conaratnp ON the mDpEnt. anH
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 the Journal 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 there is evidence of rejoicing
in the Deere & Weber establishment
in Minneapolis today over the result.
The challenge reads as follows:
CHALLENGE.
FAIRMONT, Mimi, Dec. Is, 1908.
To the Agent or Agents of the
Sharples Cream Separator
Gentlemen: In the catalogue pub
lished by the Sharples Cream Separ-
ator company with the Deere Weber
attached and used by them in their
trade catalogue, on pages "a and 20,
we note the following:
Notwithstanding the fact that we
resort to no complications whatever
we will place a S%harples Tubular
Dairy Separator beside the best
separator of the best other make in
existence, and absolutely guarantee
to cut in half any record for q clean
skimming which other machines 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 Swimming, 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.
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-hun-
dredths, the Tubular will skim to one
hundredth; if the other skins to one
%hundredth, the Sharples will skim to a
half.
.Furthermor we will guarantee that
when used regularly in q dairy proper
| toned 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 6 per cen
yearly interest on the whole cost OF
the separator"
We undersigned offer this as a fair
consideration to enable you to prove
what is in the above assertion. W.
agree to furnish enough milk free OF
charge and agree to use he same
quality and temperature of milk. We
offer to make two runs of 200 pounds
each with each machine. The first .tC
be at a temperature of 20 degrees: The
second run to be a temperature OF "
degrees. No machine to skim cream
of a density of less than 30 per cen
butter fat. We agree to run Oul
, machine of as nearly equal claim
, capacity according to book OF in
structions. The runs to be made il
t a building known as "Machinery
Hail. Fairmont. Minnesota, on De
I cember 18th, 1908. Competent Judges
to be selected to determine the result
To show our good intentions W.
hand the treasurer of the Minnesota
State Dairyman's association a Ger
q tlilcate OF deposit against the Martin
County National Bank, Fairmont
} Minnesota, of One Hundred Dollars
I lSlOO), said one hundred dollars tt
S 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 rejected
S at once in the presence of not less thai
three witnesses.
The challenge was signed by tn
representatives of the parties in in
~terest, and was accepted by the repre-
sentatives of the Deere & Webbe
> Company.
. FAIRMONT, Mimi, Dec. Il, 1908.
e We, the undersigned, judges in tn
above contest, hereby certify that q
the run made by the following separ
ators, in pursuance of the abov