The Falls City tribune., 1906-01-26
Careless Handling Of Nebraska
Cream.

dustry in recent years, admittedly
adding immensely to the wealth OF
the state, has not been attended |
by that careful attention to detail
required to develop the money
making feature OF the business In
its fullest sense. La short, many
Nebraska dairymen have b eu
careless in the operation of their
separator, as the result OF which
the grade of the output has been
lowered, causing an estimated loss
annually which runs into the tens
of thousands of dollars.
Creamery men are responsible
for this criticism as to the methods
of many of the farmers, but they
also assert that the agricuturis,s
are now beginning TO see the error
of their ways and are making
consistent effort to study their
mistakes, SO that they may be
avoided, and thus reap the harvest
which their labors deserve.
Dairy men who have studied
cream separating and butter rnak-
ing in all of It's details declare that
there are fully 10000 hand separ.
ators now in use III the t a t e.
There are 10000 farms, making
one cream separator for every
fourth farm. According to this
authority, many farmers are care
less in the handling of their separ-
ators. The machine often is not
kept thoroughly clean aud sani
tary, in consequence of which the
cream daily loses It's quality from
contact with bacteria in vasious
forms which have found Judgement
in the separator. Many of the
creameries also have been to
blame They have, in the main,
paid the same price for all grades
of cream, the compensation to the
farmer depending almost entirely
upon the percentage of butter fat
which the cream contains. In
brief, scant attention hes been de.
voted to the question of the grade
or quality of the cream, The re.
suit has been general lowering
of the grade of the butter. A few
of the larger creameries have been
able to guard against this condi
ton, but the effect of the farmers
negligence has been to lower tn,
butter product in quality and thu,
decrease the selling price.
Convinced that the time ha.
come for reformation, many o.
the creameres have instituted a
system of testing the cream sen
them by dairymen as to its condit
ion rs we'll as to the proportion o
butter fat. For the better grade.
of cream "A higher price is beins
paid, while the poorer quality br
ings less money. No fixed stand
ard has yet been set, but as gen
eral proposition fhe higher grad
brings the former and dairyman
to . cents more per pound of butt
er fat than that of the loves
grade. This difference in pric
will have a tendency to Undue
the farmer to improve the uualit,
of his cream. and only carefu
attention to the process of separa
ion can bring this desired result
Better cream is to mean bette
prices from the butter maker, an
to the latter it will also mean
better average price fer his pro,
uct. Butter making has becon
great industry in Nebr .skp al
any movement tending to mater
ally improve prices clearly poin
to formidable increase in Il
wealth of the state.
The state convention of Nebra
ka Dairymen's Association is
be held in Lincoln January Il
and at this session the problem
operating cream separators dout
less will claim more attention tn
any other phase of the problem
making butter confronting tt
convention. Evening News.