The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1905-11-16
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Appreciates the Skim Milk.

Appreciates the Skim Milk.
The farmers OF the corn belt are
coming more and more to appreciate
the value of their skim milk for feed.
ing on their farms to their calves,
hogs and poultry. Talking with the
manager of creamery in Northern
Illinois, a representative of the Farm
ers' Review was told that he could
buy no skim milk for making up into
cottage cheese; for the reason that
the farmers in his vicinity would not
sell 1t. They declared that it was
worth at least 20 cents per 100 pounds
for feeding to their farm animals, and
thaC they preferred to keep it, even if
they could get that for it. One man
lived not far from a bottling establish
ment where he could get good price
for his whole milk, but he preferred
to haul it to a whole milk creamery
that he might get the skim milk to use
on his farm. In this same locality
one year the farmers quite generally
sold their milk for shipping to the
SASy, ouI WhOA 1dll ColuO IudL
their hogs were in poor condition on
account of having been deprived of
the skim milk in the early periods of
their lives. The next year they made
change and held back the skim
milk for their own use. We doubt
very much if 20 cents per 100 pounds
represents the true value of the skim
milk for feeding purposes. That may
be indicated by the actual chemical
content of the milk, but it has value
beyond that, which is the value that
it has in combination with corn. 1t
has been shown that corn is worth
very much more when fed with skim
milk than when fed alone. AS bal
ANGER for corn it has a value that the
chemist will never be able to deter
mine.
Demand for Sweet Cream Butter.
Sweet cream butter is butter that
has not been sailed and not butter
made from unripened cream. That
the demand for this kind of butter is
increasing is a remarkable fact. The
creamery at Ringwood, Illinois, is ma
king about 10000 pounds of butter a
month and all, except that used by
the patrons, is being taken by large
dairy company of Chicago. Gradually
there has been an increase in the de-
mand for unsalted butter, till now
two-thirds of all the butter supplied
by that creamery is of this kind. That
is. about 10000 pounds of unsalted
butter is being supplied by this one
creamery every month and there are
numerous other creameries making
some sweet cream butter. At first the
demand was from the foreigners al
most wholly, and especially from the
Jews. Indeed, the Jews were such
great users of this unsalted butter
that the factory men dubbed it "Jew
butter" But it is now losing that
Characterization, for the reason that
many native Americans are using it
instead of the sailed article. We have
supposed that the demand for the
fresh article was to be confined to
European countries like France, but
we are evidently mistaken. The but
ter is making great Roadway in Eng
land, where the demand has always
previously been for sailed butter. This
in our country at least marks new
phase Of creamery DEVELOPMENT
Tne Diaries and the Doctors
One man that has the handling of
a good deal of milk for Chicago tells
the writer that he has an arrangement
with the doctors in several towns
from which he buys milk. BY which
the doctors report to him the presence
of any contagious disease on any farm
in the locality. whether that farm is
producing milk or not. In this way it
is possible for him to know about the
conditions under which milk is being
made for his trade. This he finds to
be q very good plan. In the case Of
the contagious disease being on the
farm Of q man that is selling him
milk, he can take measures to prevent
the sending out of that milk. On the
other hand, if the disease is on the
farm of q man that is not selling him
milk, he can serve notice on the
men that are selling him milk that
they are not to receive the milk from
such 4 farm. If this practice were
made general it would greatly i'm
prove the situation as to the spread
of contagious diseases by means of
milk. Cases are constantly coming to
the attention of the public where some
man that is supplying perhaps only a
very small amount of milk to the
trade is the means of scattering dis
eases that revage communities using
the milk. Every man should have too
much conscience to sell milk when he
has deadly disease in his family, but
actual experience demonstrates that
that is just the time he will sell his
product, as a general thing, for the
reason that his needs are greatest at
that time This phase of human ma
s.,re must be taken into consideration
"scaidine with Cold Water"
In visit to creamery recently the
writer noted that the combined churns
and butter workers were in perfect
condition and that no smell could be
detected. These churns had been in
use for a year. The buttermaker
laughed when the condition of the
,hurns were mentioned to him and