The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1904-01-08

Minnesota DairymeN's Commit
tee RENDERS Report of
National Interest and
Importance.
Tells How Much the Variou.
SeparatOrs Save and Awards
tile Palm to the Sllarpses
1t Skins More Than
Twice AS Clean as
Any Other.
Special to Minneapolis journal.

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Special to Minneapolis journal
FAIRMoNT, Mimi, Dec, Is. 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 separators. 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 hun
dred OF the leading creamery men
watching 1t 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
Association: and f. j. Henry, traveller
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 e. 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
other separator on the market; and
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
| horowith tho oh 11nrno pf M
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 & Webber establishment
in Minneapolis today over the result.
The challenge reads as follows:
| CHALLENGE.
FAIRMONT, Mimi, Dec. l6, 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 w ebber
attached and used by them in their
trade catalogue, on pages "a and 25,
we note the following:
Notwithstanding the fact that we
resort to no complications whatever
we will place Sharples Tubular
Dairy Separator beside the best
separ ator 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.
ION hot milk or cold milk, fresh
milk or stale milk, cows milk or
goats milk, rich milk or poor milk,
thick skimming or thin skimming, 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.
THE REPORT
This is what the judges say about
the cream separ atOr test:
''If the other N machine skins to one
tenth, the Tubular will skim to half q !
tenth; If the other skins to twO-hun- |
dredths, the Tubular will skim to one
hundredth; If the other skins to one
the Sharples will skim to q |
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 cent
yearly interest on the whole cost of !
the separator"
We undersigned offer this as fair
consideration to enable you to prove
| what is in the above assertion. We
| agree to furnish enough milk free of
charge and agree to use the same
| quality and temperature of milk. We
offer to make two runs of 200 pounds |
each with each machine. The first to !
be at temperature of 70 degrees; the
second run to be temperature of 96
degrees. No machine to skim cream
of density of less than 30 per cent
butter fat. We agree to run our
machine of as nearly equal claim
capacity according to book of in
structions. The runs to be made in
building known as MACHINERY
Hail." Fairmont. Minnesota, on De-
cember 17th, 1908. Competent judges
To show our good intentions we
hand the treasurer of the Minnesota
| State Dairyman's association q cer-
tificate of deposit against the Martin
County National Bank, Fairmont,
MinnesOta, vi One Hundred Dollars
(s1O0), said one hundred dollars to
| 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
at once in the presence of not less than
| three witnesses.
The challenge was signed by the
representatives of the parties In In.
terest, and was accented by the repre-
| sentatives of the Deere & Webber
! Company.
FAIR1doNT, Minn., Dec. II, 1908.
We, the undersigned, judges in the
above contest, hereby certify that at
the run made by the following separ-
ators, in pursuance OF the above
agreement was as follows:
AS milk could be obtained for only
one run, 1t was made at q temperatur