The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1910-05-24
SEPARATOR PAYS WITH FEW COWS
With onIy our ous BeingM ked a Good Cream Separator pad +. ,,
self h FRS Wear and & Good Mafgino of Profit
b. r. B. Rushing.
Of RALEIGH, N. {.

Following is from q conversation
with d man VINO has recently gone
into the dairy business. He IS a
strong believer in the cream separa-
tor.
"For several years we had been
keeping three or four cows, raising
a calf each veal but letting the calves
suck the cows until they were from
four to six months old, and not try
ing to milk them Until after the calf
was quite large, and then after we
Gid wean them the COWS did not
seem to do we'll in giving milk, and
it also ee1ne that the COWS were
making US a very small noun Of
money this way.
Three years ago. / CHANGED to be
at a place here a cream separator
workings and getting a few figures
about making butter, and selling
Crea1n. and also feeding the skim
mix to hogs, 1t appeared to me that
| would like to have a good separa-
tor.
so when / returned home wife
and | talked the matter over, and
it seemed as though we were not
financially able to buy the machine.
bot at that time we had four COWS.
two Of which were fresh and the
other two would be fresh soon. Al
ter talking the matter over cOnsld-
erably we decided to try the machine.
Following our decision, We bought
what we thought was a good separa-
tor. Before we bought the sepa-
rator, the most butter we had ever
made any one week was only 8 pounds
g very small amount of course. With
the help OF the separator we made
twelve pounds the first week from
the same cows, apparently giving the
same amount Of milk and on the
same feed.
kept on making butter until Septem-
Der. when we began selling cream.
We got only II to IS cents per
Iound for our butter. The higher
price for just q little to private Gus
toners, and it mostly sold for 90 cent IS,
ana dlfferent prices for cream. ac-
cnrd1ng to the price of butter fat.
which varied from p to 81 cents per
POUND.
For the yea beginning and end
ing with the time we bought the sep
arato we sold butter and cream to
the amount of s225.5O. this amount
minus s13T.5o. the value of our out
lay for the year before, leave s2s.
for the cream and butter, to which
may be added the sales of the calves
which was SIS, which makes a total
Of 1913. for the first year with the
separator.
These figures are not large OF
course. bat it is at least twice what
We were getting for the same cows by
letting the calves have the milk.
II IS much more wrok to milk
than to turn the calves to the cows
twice a day, but the extra mount OF
H'iik for the pigs, and also the skim
milk for the calves pays good wages
fol the time spent in milking.
The experience we have had has
proven to me that a good cream sepa-
razor IS a most paying investment on
a 1arm- 1t is also a great la Dor saw
ihg oeVlce, being much easier to wash
DO manure than either crooks or cans.
t'ui what IS most astonishing to me
IS the difference In returns between
me use OF the separator, and the
citing of the calves have the mix.
My income is fully doubled. and
l oelleVe viii be higher in the fu-
iuTe, ana the labor is not great. 1t
Is also a much more sanitary way
OF handling milk han the old way.
as the separator removes many i'm
purltIes that would otherwise remain
IN the milk or cream.
II any one AN make good butter
without q separator they will Ger
talnly make better butter with one.
and besides get all the cream instead
Of just part.
A small sized separator will paw
Tor itself IN one year with the milk
rrom but two or three COWS.
I have already learned that good
cows. properly housed, fed and MIXED
and a cream separator with which