It's Easier Now Than Forty Years Ago.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 29 August 1910, Page 4

It's Easier Now Than Forty Years Ago.

When the majority of dairymen are bemoaning their hard fate in making milk at i* profit or even al a loss, it is cheering to have someone speak a word in a more optimistic vein, as Mr 0. L. Peak does in the Tribune Farmer. He contrasts the methods of many years ago with those of to-day, showing ho£ much easier the work is now than it was then,jind speaking of the separator,

™« *¥ deep settin g> came the most important improvement of a'.l the centrifugal separator, which, as tZTftn a V? is time ' ,eaves tlmn 1-100 of 1 ps-r cent, fat in ihe n ilk Tl m 1O '?° P° »'' milk. The average loss o.f the daep nt ting o^ ans was > fl s commonly used, about 20 per cent, of the butter carcow Th f a - VmnA a** to 3f t , I personally made drS S e + B . abcock test over one Hun<lied tests m a single dairy county of skim milk from which the cream had f'n«f of cod wa ter setting, inoludhuSJl? 3 L pe L- cent - of the total