CREAM SEPARATORS

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XII, Issue 3857, 14 July 1891, Page 2

CREAM SEPARATORS

The following interesting article on tbe hand-power cream separator is extracted from an English papei*. It illustrates in a graphic manner the wonderfully successful results which may be expected to follow the introduction of this great modern invention into practical use on an average dairy farm. The figures quo.ed, it must be remembered, are tbose for England; but a comparison can easily be made and applied to our own circumstances. We extract the letter-press on the subject:—''The practical success of the centrifugal Cream Separator was proved long ago. Its commercial success is now also fully established. The Separator pays. Until lately, however, only comparatively large farmers or dairy proprietors could profitably use Separators, except by the adoption of the factory or co-opera-tive system. The introduction of the hand-power machine has immensely extended the field of usefulness of the Separator. The small farmer or dairyman may now enjoy tbe extra profitswhichtheCreimSeparatorearns as well as the large proprietors. A simple calculation will show how the Separator pays! Suppose you have only 10 gallons, or say 100 lbs. of milk to be made into butter daily, Take this for 365 days. Suppocethat the milk is not very rich, and only gives 3£ Ins. of butter for every 100 lbs. Take the butter at Is 2d per lb. This will come to 1277$ lba. of butter at Is 2d per lb.—£74 10s sd. It has been proved over and over again that from 15 to 25 per cent more butter will be made from a given quantity of milk by centrifugal creaming than by any of the ordinary methods. You may therefore safely count upon getting 4lbs 2oz of butter, instead of 31hs Boz, from every 100 lbs of milk, and the account will

stand thus:—with Separator, 15061bs of butter at Is 2d—£B7 17s, without Separ tor, 1277i1bs of butter at Is 2d —£74 10s sd; gained by Separator in quantity only, ,£l3 6s 7d. But it must be borne in mind that the butter from machine-separated cream is purer, of better and more uniform quality, and commands a higber price than that made by other methods. Frequently, by putting in a Separator, farmers and others have got from 2d to 4d a pound more for their butter than they got before. The success of Danish but tor is, no doubt, owing to the fact that it is mostly made from machine-separated cream. If we take the improvement in quality as equal to 2d only per pound, the account will stand thus:— gained by Separator iu quantity, £l3 6s 7d; gained by Separator in quality, £l2 lis; total gain due to Separator, £25 17s 7d. It will be seen that a dairy of 5 to 7 cows only, producing an average of 10 gallons of milk daily.should earn £25 a year extra by the * Victoria band power Separator, and could thus nearly pay for tbe machine in the first year. Of course, the rioher the milk the larger will be the amount which the separator will earn. This does not take into account interest on capital, cost of labor, wear and tea»", etc, as these items will amount to very little, if any, more than the cost of working with setting pans. In districts where butter factorie exist, it will obviously be a grea advantage to be able to separate milk at the farm and send the cream only to the factory, instead of having to cart the whole milk. The expense of oartage will be reduced, whilst the skim milk will be kept on the farm and used there whilst in a fresh and sweet condition. We may further remind farmers situated near towns of the large aad growing trade in fresh cream whioh exists close to them, and which the Victoria Hand power Separator will enable them to meet. It is not necessary to point out to landed proprietors who have their own borne farms bow great a convenience th e Victoria Hand power Machines will be to them. Whilst the Separator is valuable at all times and in all agricultural districts, it is particularly so in hot seasons of the year, and in hot climates, as the milk may be separated at once." * Victoria Cream Separators, band and power; agents for the North Island, Messrs Wilkins and Field, Iron Merchants, Wellington. ,