The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1912-09-20

: only for a comparatively short tim
The operating cost, therefore,
practically nothing.
In large diaries. where hand mill
ers are difficult to obtain, the milk
! ing machine has place and the re
} cords seem to show that these de
vices are favorably received in som
of our dairy sections at least. Thos
} which have been commercially use,
in this country consist principally O
vacuum pump, milk chamber witt
specially constructed admission val
yes, rubber connecting tubes an,
special type of cups which fit dir
ectly on the cows teats, convenien
method of driving a vacuum pum]
J being by the electric motor Thes,
equipments are often called electric
mixers" AS all dairymen know
Refrigeration is an essential tha
} they cannot do without In many
plants natural ice is still used, but
the cost of harvesting, storing and
handling ice is frequently greater
than the operation of power-driven
refrigerating machine. Artificial re.
frigeration is more sanitary and far
more convenient. A refrigerating
equipment recently installed in the
dairy department at the College
Farm of the New Jersey State Col
lege of Agriculture. New Brunswick,
New York, consists of the usual
brine tank Through which the am
monia coils pass. The cooling of
the brine and of the refrigerator en-
tirely takes the place of ice. In
other works, it is not a combination
refrigerator, but is cooled by the am
monia pumped by an electric motor.
The same pump and motor conducts
ammonia through the inner compart-
ment of the milk cooler and aerator.
The motor is set running just before
the milk is started to flowing over
the cooler and aerator. The milk by
passing over it is cooled and aerated.
and run into the bother just below.
AS soon as the milk has all passed
over the motor is turned off.
Some daries without this equip
ment resort to pumping of ice-water
through the cooler. This, of course
can be done with the electric motor
or any other power and even by
gravity. This last method is most
common. but in warm weather it
does not cool the milk sufficiently
The cooling which the electric am
monia system provides makes it pos
sible to almost freeze the milk, and
thus keep down the bacteria by re-
ducing the natural multiplication of
these organisms.
Small refrigerators are beneficial
on all farms for storage of eggs,
dressed poultry, and for preserving
the freshness of flowers, fruit or
garden truck that cannot be i'm
sent to market. They
are also useful for keeping meats
and other perishable supplies for
nome consumption.
Individual uses for electric power
IN the farm seem to be almost with
'ut end. Electric clipping is en-
'loyed in the dairy farms and milk
arms and COW grooming is accom- !.
'lished in similar manner. When :
milk is of the highest quality is to
re produced, the farmer must put :,
lis strock through careful prepar-
ton for cleanliness, and it has been
etermined at several experiment
tations, as well as in practical COM
nercial diaries, that It pays to
room cows daily, owing to the
reater production of milk thus OBJ
aimed. In some cases this practice II
as resulted in an average increased II
utput per COW of 5 per cent which
I course, even at low value of II
lilk, would pay for the electric cur II
emit, etc. In all farming one real Z
'es that the time incidental to COW CT
ring distance is one of the greatest
andicaps to rapid production and
lie accomplishment of quick results. c]
he force of this statement is hard Ia
realize until one has actually OBJ t.
rived the distance farmer and his a,
en- will travel in a day by team or B
foot in going to and from their n,
ork, the house or barn buildings. be
erhaps the farmer will desire mere a,
to speak to his assistants about p,
eff work, but, nevertheless, he ma
ust travel the intervening distance w
generally M o+hor m aopc 10 49,.