How to Add Points to Milk Test

Horowhenua Chronicle, 29 July 1916, Page 2

How to Add Points to Milk Test

(A T .Z. Dairyman)

There are vary few farmers that don't lower their own test a point or two every week because they do not realize that the Babcock test can only give a correct result if the milk is iii a normal condition. the cream has risen on the evening s milk, it is absolutely impossible by any known method to get a fair and. true sample. Ft the sample is taken by the "drip*' system, no portion of the cream that has gathered on the night's milk ever gets into the sample bottle. If, on the other hand, the sample is "dipped," it is still a million to one that any floating clots of cream will come up in the dipper. The remedy is to take ■tare the cream does not rise in the evening's milk. The best thing to stop the cram from rising is to make the milk as cold as possible. Very little cream rises in milk that is cooled, immediately after milking; and this is wliv it pays to cool the night milk. To put it. in a nutshell : If you cool the night's milk, and then, by frequent stirring, prevent the little that does litse from forming a skin, you get paid | for all the butter-fat in the milk. If you neglect this and—and if you neglect to put the night's milk through a strainer, so as to break up the lumps of the gatliered cream just before leaving for the factory—you do not get paid for aii the butter fat in the milk. For this, a supplier has only himself to blame. No creamery or factory manager can got a fair sample of milk that has clots floting in it. Oil a herd of forty cows attention to this diotail will make a considerable addition to the monthly oliequ®.