The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-03-18

Special to The Journal.
st. Peter, Mimi, March 17-If tho
hand separator comes into general use
in this state, says Samuel Haugdahl,
champion buttermaker of the world,
Minnesota will lose the butter reputa-
ton it has been building up for the
last fifteen years. The st. Peter man,
who is considered one of the foremost
creamery experts in the northwest, re-
CARDS the hand separator as real men,
ace and believes the exploitation of the
machine can work great injury to the
dairy industry. -
EQUALITY" says Mr.. Haugdahl, lis
what makes the consumer willing to
pay high price. Butter having the
same food value-the renovated prod
uct and poor farm butter-ean be
bought fo4 half the price; it is the
flavor that makes the difference. And
the-hand separator, beyond all contro-
versy, Injuries quality. =s
3" zone reason why hand separator but
ter cannot reach the standard Of the
whole-milk product is because separator
patrons are unable to, observe the rules
of perfect cleanliness. At the cream
cry, the buttermaker can. inspect the
milk cans and have them kept in good
condition, but there is no feasible plan
for bringing in the separator. Under
ordinary farm conditions, there is al
most a total lack of facilities for prop
erly sterilizing the machines, and it is
no sinecure to keep them clean and
wholesome. Very often a microscopic
examination of a separator that seems
to be thoroly cleansed will reveal the
fact that it is covered with bacteria
and, naturally, the cream is contain
mated in passing over so much tin sur
face. - ,..s ve.. :.
Quick Work on Butter. -
"Then, too, cooling is much slower
process in cream than in milk; there
is no circulation in the former, and it
has tendency to ferment and retain
stable and animal odors. Slow delivery
of cream is an important consideration.
It is not taken to the creamery az
often as milk and is allowed to age too
greatly, when every farmer knows that
butter fat should be turned into but
ter as quickly as possible. The tub
| that won for me in Paris was taken
| from morning s milk churned in the af-
| ternoon. -.
ga short time ago I made test
| of forty-six samples of skinned milk
taken from hand separators. Only
| three tested as we'll as creamery sam
pies; in several cases they contained 1
per cent, or one-fourth of the total
amount of butter fat, and the average
loss was 8 per cent. In a creamery
like that New Sweden, which re-
ceives upwards of 100000 pounds of
milk year, this one item would reduce
the revenue more than $1,000. In Iowa,
more than in any other northwestern
state, butter production has been re-
duced thru the introduction of the sep
arators.
";Here in Nicollet county they have
! gained no foothold and that is why,
out of nine entries in the butter-scoring
contest at the national buttermakers'
| convention in Chicago, we were able to
secure the remarkably high average Of
"a. And this reminds me that the but
termakers in the western part of the
state, where the separators are more
commonly used, want the Minnesota
dairy and food commission to establish
a lower class in the state butter-scoring
contests. They realize the futility Of
con - eting with the whole-milk experts
and Nant a department of their own.
i "Yes, I'm against the separator;
i I've always been opposed to tainted
/ butter.'