The Florida agriculturist., 1905-12-13
BIG STORIES BOILED DOWN.
Butter without Any Cow.

stories that some writers VIII pam VII
upon an unexpecting and credulOus 1
public we copy an article from the last I
nu,rber of the Rural New Yorker.
reader sends us a copy of the
Cswego Times containing one OF the
most remarkable ''big stOries'' we have
ever seen i'm print. Some correspond
dent of the Times claims to have
found at New Braintree, Mass,
factory where butter is made direct
from hay.
This plant covers about five acres
of ground: the building alone covers
about two acres and is two stories
high. 1t is constructed on the latest
improved plans. being built of concrete
and then smOOthed up with cement. |
This plant is for the making of butter
from hay without the use of cows.
This plant uses some 10000 tons of
hay per year now, and arrangements
are now being made to more than
double the capacity within the next
year or so. These people buy the hay
as soon as it is thoroughly cured, pay
ing as high as S15 per ton for good clio
YER and from that down to $S for the
poorer grades. The hay is then cut
up fine. about One-half inch in length.
and put i'm very large. strong vats or
tanks. they being so made that they
are capable of standing great pressure.
About five tons of hay is put in each
vat and certain chemicals are sprayed
on the hay. Then steam is forced
into the watts until all the hay is
thoroughly sOftened. then the vat is
hermetically sealed and left for p
hours. after which time immense press
ure is put on and every particle of
juice pressed from the hay. This
Juice is run through a separator and
the butter fat comes out just the same
as the cream from milk. This is kept
at temperature of 60 degrees for 20
hours and then churned. The butter
produced in this manner is now sell
ing i'm New York and Boston markets
for 40 cents to 30 cents per pound.
and the average amount of butter
taken from ton of hay is 100 pounds.
good clover making as high as $50
pounds per ton. while hay of poorer
quality will seldom run below "a
pounds per ton. The juice after the
butter fat is extracted, is mixed with
buckwheat middling and baked into
cakes. and is being used by dealers
i'm fancy poultry for feeding young
ed that 20 per cent more chickens car
he raised from this food than any
other food known. Then again the
hay. after having been pressed. is
rut into a dry kiln and thoroughly
dried. and then ground as fine as corn
meal and sold for horse feed. it beine
claimed that this mixed with Oat,
half and half gives better results thai
clear oats and as oats are worth abOu
one and One-fOurth to one and one
half cents per pound, this feed is sole
for about $40 per ton. so that alto
gether it is a very profitable business
Experiments are now going on b.
which the manufa cturerS are expect
ing TO bring out new products maxim:
it still better.
The trouble is that some people will
actually believe such yarns. and thinl
the old COW * to no put ont of bust
ness. Having stood the shock from
the ''OleO" men the COW is quite pre
Pared TO survive even this famOu
factory. We have readers at thi
place. This is what ore of them SAYS
We do not know of the sIigftes
foundation for this yarn. We believ,
it to he a canard DUre and simple. W,
DO not have daily paper regularly