NOTES AND COMMENTS

Shannon News, 11 February 1927, Page 3

NOTES AND COMMENTS

FOR FARMERS AND FACTORYMEN. A cream separator is a delicate machine, built for 'high speed work. Treat it as such. Nature provides us with pure milk, and wc should endeavour to keep milk and its products in a natural condition. You lose money if you skim cold milk.. Finest butter commands the finest price; medium butter a medium price. Quality tells! ! Hurrying the herd in is equivalent to hurrying the butter-fat out. Take them steady. ' You cannot make a silk purse out of a sow’s car. Supply sound milk and cream.

If you milk cows for a living, and do not test them systematically, you are simply guessing. Can you afford to guess ?

Wash and scald the separator after evevy operation. You will lose £ s d if you do not.

Dairy factories do not usually object to the feeding of turnips to cows. It is the turnips and rape-tainted milk and cream that they object to. Pure drinking water for cows helps to make pure milk. You will lose a half-penny per lb. if you skim cream containing less than 35 per cent, of butter-fat.

Second grade cream is now paid for at the rate of l£d less than “Finest.” Go for “Finest.” You cannot guess which is your best cow. You have to prove it. Which herd would you sooner have: 20 cows with a 1501155. average, or 10 cows with a 3001bs. average?

Belt slip in the separating plant is a costly slip.

It pays to have the skim milk tested once each month. Most dairy factories will test it free of charge. Check the separator!

When planning the lay-out of your jm liking plftnt, make provision for holding your cream right away from the milking shed.

If you produce a lot of cream, and use a large cream can, erect a suitable covered stand at your gate, so that the lorry can pull in, and the cream be handled expeditiously.