Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1918-12-27
BUTTERFAT LOST IN CREAMERIES

Butterfat losses in creamer1es are
considered in bulletin III, recently is
sued by the Minnesota experiment sta
ton, University Farm. The bulletin is
at the Minnesota State creamery at AL
bert Lea. The results reported were
obtained in normal operation of the
creamery, no special effort having been
made to reduce the amount Of me-
chanical losses. The figures arrived at
are as follows:
skimmilk retained 1.64 per cent of
the total fat received at the factory,
and buttermilk .93 per cent.
About s Of per cent Of the total
fat received lost mechanically in watts
and pipes.
About IA per cent of total butterfat
received in cream lost in the process
OF manufacture.
About. 3.17 per cent of the butterfat
received in milk lost in the process of
manufacture
When the losses were accurately
considered, the butterfat in the milk.
determined by the standard Babcock
methods checked with the fat in the
cream separated from it and the but
te11aI in the cream as determined by
the Babcock test checked with the
chemical analysis. 1t is clearly pointed
out IN the bulletin, further, that cream
does not test the same in milk test
bottles as in cream test bottles.
The bulletin is the work of r. NJ
Wash burn and Y. c. Dahlberg at the
division Of dairy husbandry of Uni
velaity Farm, and of James Sorenson
ana NJ. L. Nortenson OF the Minnesota
state creamery. Copies may be had
M!1n I,I',; eXpense by addre1sjng office
LIVE WIRE WORK BY FARM BUR-
EAUS
there are some OF the things done
by the farm bureaus-of which there
ma in
sofa associated by the county agricul-
tural agents, in the course of the crop
season just closed. THE beehive and
the anthill have nothing on the farm
bureaus of Minnesota for activity" re-
marked a student Of Minnesota's farm
activities after reading the list:
Placed hundreds OF men on farms
last harvest to meet the labor short
age. -
Checked hos cholera outbreaks at
hundreds of thousands of dollars
Obtained and tested thousands of
bushels Of seed corn and other seed
grains for farmers who were short.
Encourage the addition Of hun
dreds or even thousands Of acres to
the alfalfa areas.
Encouraged the selecting and curing
of enough seed corn to supply the state
needs for the next two seasons
Helped to save thousands of bushels
OF grain by having threshing machines
inspected.
Organized livestock breeders asso-
Citations, live stock shipping associa-
tlons, cow testing associations and pro-
NOTED tho buying and selling of pure
bred stock.
Organized a tractor operators school
to increase efficiency in the use of
machines.
Encouraged the treating of seed
grain for SHUTS in order to shut off
state wide annual loss Of something
like ST, 100000.
Gave an impetus to home canning
that put thousands Of cans of food
away for this winters use.
Built a $4,000 creamery.
Started campaign, which in some
cases added $40 an acre to the incomes
Of potato farmers.
Raised thousands of dollars for the
Red Cross, the Y. NJ C. A., the Y. w.
G. 4. and the X. c..
Not every farm bureau has done all
OF these things, but every farm bureau
IN the state has done some of these
things. or others like them.