The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1904-10-15
THE DAIRY
Farm Separator and the Creamery.

termaker, is referred to as one of the
advanced buttermakers on the ground
that he does not object to receiving
cream from hand separators, but rath-
er encourages the farmers to bring
it. In so doing we do not know but
that Mr.. Emerson is one of the many
who sees what is coming-the cream
cry business carried on entirely with
the use of the hand separator, but in
order to be successful he will have to
make one step further, or perhaps
rather two steps, viz: to refuse to
take milk and insist that the cream
must be delivered at the creamery at
least every other day. Under the pres
ent conditions which prevail in most
dairy sections, with but few eXcep-
tons, the hand separators are more
of a curse to the creamery than other
wise, as in order to be successful a
creamery must either have all whole
milk or all cream.
Many of our best buttermakers in
sist that they cannot make as good
butter from cream skinned on the
farm as from that skinned at the fac
tory, and in this they are supported
by commission men and dealers, but
of the hand separator but merely the
lack of putting the proper methods
into the system. We have never be-
lieved that creamery getting part
milk and part cream from hand sepa-
rators brought in at odd times and in
different conditions could prove sue
cessful, but we do know that a cream
cry properly conducted entirely on the
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fine butter as the whole milk cream
cry. When every item is carefully
figured and looked at we will find
that this plan will produce butter at
a less cost, both to the farmer and the
manufacturer.
No matter whether each farmer
hauls his own milk or takes a turn
about, or otherwise pays for the haul
ing, there is a cash value per pound
of butterfat to be figured, which is
about five times more than that OF the
transportation of the cream from that
same milk.
In the creamery where milk is han
died the item of labor and fuel and
wear and tear of machinery is nearly
double that where only cream is han
died. When this is attended to the
loss derived lTOm CdICloSS anu ihPio-
per running of the steam separators
in the creameries, and this applies to
about two-thirds of them, it will be
seen that in the whole milk plant
there are many holes into which the
profit can and does escape. A trlte
contention against hand separator
cream is that it does not reach the
creamery sweet enough or in the pro-
per condition, and that the farmer
cannot learn to take proper care OF 1t.
Well, if that is true, then it must be
conceded that he will never learn to
take proper care of his milk. But it
is not true The rules governing the
care of cream on the farm While
awaiting collection need to be very
simple. The cream should be cooled
Immediately after skimming just as
it is necessary to cool the milk AFTER
milking. Warm cream should never
be mixed with previous skimmlngs.
The can in which the cream is kept
and collected until taken away by the
cream collector needs to be a straight
wide open can with a cover the same
shape as a Cooley can, but large, Win
a stirrer, so that when new cool cream
ie oddod if can he given a thorough