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Newspaper
Vindicator And Republican
Location
Estherville, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 26, 1908
Page
13
Farmers complain about high hauling charges and the inability to keep milk fresh enough to skim clean when delivered to the creamery every other day. Sour or partially soured milk reduces butterfat recovery, affecting hog feed and milk value. The hand separator is proposed as a solution to improve skimming and preserve milk value.
An extensive Michigan Experiment Station trial fed 7 pigs 3,998 pounds of skim milk and 410 pounds of grain in 35 days. They gained 395 pounds, valuing pork at 6.10 dollars per hundred and grain at 20 dollars per ton. The report argues skim milk is a profitable feed, worth more than its cost, and endorses preserving milk.
The Chicago Health Department promotes hand separators to clarify milk, claiming cream separators remove filth and disease germs. It warns that unsafe handling and mixed cream milk spouts increase bacterial growth, and that using separators would improve milk quality for both animals and humans.
The article lists the many uses of the cow from horn to bone and blood. It notes horns for hair combs hooves glue skin for feet hair for plaster milk cream butter cheese flesh as meat blood for sugar white, bones for fertilizer paunch for paper making and even cardboard for false teeth.
The article advises placing a low fence board about two feet from the floor in milking stalls to stop cows from lying down while waiting to be milked. It aims to reduce dusty udders and wet tails and to prevent cows from kicking or injuring the milker.
The article explains costs and savings in a creamery system using whole milk and fat, showing how hauling labor and fuel split per 100 pounds fat. It argues cream patrons gain about $102.60 per month and advocates selecting densers when favorable, with references to experiment stations and milk testing for value.
The New York Experiment Station reports figures: set milk needs 22 lb to produce 1 lb butter while the separator needs 24 lb. Fat recovery is 70 lb per 100 lb cream for churn versus 93 lb with the separator. Annual butter savings rise with higher cow yield, per year gains listed.
Prof Bouska of Iowa Agricultural College Ames states sampling frozen milk is unreliable. He notes cream rich in butterfat and the ice mixture yield varying fat content, causing tests to swing widely. Historical data from the Dairy Bureau shows sample top and bottom portions differ and early milk reflects lower fat content.
A farmer asks if tapping the first milk can reveal a cow’s worth. The reply: the first milk is often low in butterfat and unreliable due to excitement or timing. A multi day test better reflects milk quality, since fat percentage varies with volume and individual cow conditions.
A veteran dairyman with 35 years in the dairy business divides pasture into two fields. When grass is lush and rains refresh soil, cows switch pastures. This simple practice helps ensure a steady, large milk flow. If pasture is insufficient, add feed to keep production profitable. Edwin H. Weber notes the dairyman should avoid be retre separator and cites Bul. 241.
The report shows milk value changes per hundred weight based on butter fat at 20 or 23 cents and hog prices set at 4.00. It notes farmer losses ranging from 43 to 80 cents per hundred when condensery prices fall to 1.00 or 0.80, highlighting revenue impact of fat content and market payments.
A 1907 Iowa creamery report details butter content in milk from 130 patrons, showing test figures and payments. It explains how butter fat percentages and prices for butter, pork, and skim milk affect the per hundred earnings, with sample calculations for 3.8 to 4.9 percent milk fat and varying prices, noting feed costs impact on net value.
The figures show that selling milk for cheese or condensory use at 25 cents per 100 more than butter fat would fetch would cause losses from 42 to 68 cents per 100 pounds in nearly all cases except one with 3.20 per cent milk. Skim milk from farm separators is worth as much in summer as in winter if pork prices stay the same, suggesting many farmers may be sacrificing skim milk value and lowering overall profits.
W A Evans M D of the Chicago Board of Health warns in a bulletin against using milks from creameries that contain putrefactive bacteria Boiling or pasteurizing cannot make such milk wholesome because the toxins produced by these organisms are not eliminated by pasteurization
A farmer testifies on ten years of using a hand separator and various milk sale methods. He claims the farm separator system increased profits, helped raise calves and pigs, and outperformed prior methods including skimming, pasteurization, and calf power setups. He notes no scientific data, but strong practical earnings.
A text recounts Iowa dairy farmers opposing pasteurization and heated skim milk, arguing for uncooked milk for stock. It notes legal actions, a stockholders meeting, and debates over creamery costs, coal use, and the value of cream separators amid changing weather impacts. The piece includes a poem about dairy life and ends with an advertisement for a New Iowa creamery product.
An extended promotional text extols milk separators, claiming daily savings on hauling and skimming, plus improved milk quality for calves and pigs. The piece weaves in moralizing lines and rustic maxims, ending with reflections on hustle and luck.
Dr Peters of the Nebraska Experiment Station explains a simple method for treating a caked udder. He uses an ordinary milk tube with a bulb to blow air into the affected quarter, massaging to disperse air until vesicles burst, then repeats as needed. For heavy congestion, a compress with heavy cloth and straw lifts the udder and relieves pressure, followed by hot bran packs.
Lord Kinnaird of the Royal Agricultural Society compared two lots of cattle on a 20 acre field. Covered manure produced 150 extra bushels of potatoes and 12 1 2 more bushels per acre of wheat versus uncovered manure. Even with exposed manure the land yielded well, but the advantage of keeping manure under cover is clear for high value land.
West Virginia Experiment Station tested skim milk as chicken feed. Twenty two hens fed skim milk produced 1,244 eggs in 122 days, vs 396 eggs from 22 hens fed mash watered. A second test with 60 hens yielded 862 eggs in 37 days vs 632 eggs without skim milk.
Wisconsin Agricultural Experiment Station report shows skim-milk fed to sows and piglets yields gains and losses. Twelve sows with 86 piglets consumed 2,949 pounds grain and 5,882 pounds skim milk over four weeks, pig weight up 1,160 pounds, sows down 104 pounds, milk valued at 60 cents per hundred pounds.
A quirky verse from Kimball's Dairy Farmer satirizes farm life and dairy wealth, contrasting the grim pull of money with rustic labor. It hints at financial distress in eastern states while praising Iowa and nearby regions for steady dairy profits.
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