The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1905-10-01


know at the end of the record, it may
serve as a check on the mixers.
Residue in Separators.
A dairyman raised the question us
the sticky, Shiny stuff that is found
adhering to the separator bowl actu
ally an impurity or it is only a pro-
duct of the process of separation
Perhaps part of the material which
is left in the separator bowl is not an
impurity of the milk, but part of 1t
is. There is small per cent of muc1l-
aginous substance which is taken out
of all milk by the separator, no mat
ter how pure it is kept. In most
creamery milk a certain portion OF the
residue left in the separator bowl is
filth. The more filth there is in the
milk. the more residue will be left in
the bowl. If old milk, nearly sour, is
run through the separator, a large de-
post of casein will be found in the
bowl, and if there is very much old
milk it will soon clog the separator.
A calf bred for dairy work, and fed
good skim milk and plenty of succu-
lent feed is almost sure to develop
into a splendid dairy COW. We should
never lose sight of the fact that the
calf must be we'll fed and cared for, ii
we expect her to develop into strong
and profitable dairy cow.
The large COW, capable of turning
out a carcass of beef at any time, Is
the favorite with fully seventy-fice per
cent of our western farmers. Is this
due to superficiality on the part of the
farmers in their effort to obtain beel
and milk from the same animal, or is
there after all some well-founded rea-
son?
No farmer, and, least Of all, dairy
man, can attain to any cOmmendable
degree of self-respect, or public esteem,
who is content with inferior stock OF
any kind. Solomon may have been
right when he said that pride goeth
before a fal1'' but if so, it is only be-
cause that he who is without pride is
so low that he cannot go much lower.
It is not always the COW that gives
the largest quantity of milk soon afte
calving that has the most to her credit
at the end of the season. We know a
cow that gave forty-one pounds of milk
a day soon after having her calf and
another that gave thirtyeight. At the
end of 800 days the first cow had given
a total of 5,400 pounds while the other
cow gave total of $3.50 pounds in the
same number Of days.
Changing the relation OF the skim
milk and cream outlets of a separator
with reference to their distance from
the center regulates the proportion or
cream taken and consequently it's rich
ness in fat. By carrying the cream
outlet nearer the center the fat glob-
ules are crowded closer together be-
fore running out. Turning it farther
from the center makes thinner cream.
The best machines are capable Of pro-
ducing cream that has sixty per cent
fat. The thickness of the cream is al
fected by the adjustment of the cream
screw, the temperature Of the milk and
the rate of flow through the bowl as
we'll as the speed of the bowl.
The oleomargarine people are now
agitating the enactment OF a law that
will prohibit the coloring of butter.
They made a desperate fight to con-
tinue the coloring of oleo without tax,
but failed and now they have become
solicitous for the welfare of the dear
people and are about to ask that but
ter shall be sold in it's natural color.
They have suddenly discovered that
butter color is a dangerous thing to
use and argue that if they are re-
stricted in it's use the dairy men should
be restricted also. 1t is rather pecul-
lar that these counterfeiters, who have
mulcted the people out of millions and
fed them on bogus butter, should now