No. 6. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 181 



THE INFLUENCE OF THE CREAM SEPAKATOR UPON THE 



DAIRY INDUSTRY. 



By P. M. Sharpless. Read by Morton Dechert. 



While a most interesting history of what this influence has been 

 and is, niiglit be given, the separator having in fact practically revo- 

 lui ionized dairying, yet just a practical business man like myself 

 and practical dairymen such as are here, I am sure, are much more 

 interested in what is to be than what has been. I do not think it 

 argues that we are unduly mercenary if right now we are more in- 

 terested in the dollars that are to be made than those that have 

 been made in the past, and spent or salted down for a rainy day, 

 perhaps. At any rate, it is a business man's way to be more inter- 

 ested in the practical results that are to be achieved in the money 

 making line in the future, than to be sentimentalizing over the past, 

 however, interesting the latter may be. 



I think there is a method of creamery operation not fully under- 

 stood or appreciated by a large proportion of Pennsylvania and 

 other eastern United States dairvmen, that means thousand's of dol- 

 lars of additional profits per year to our cow keepers and milk 

 handlers, than prevailing methods, so the parties who got up the 

 programme will have to excuse me, if my business man's training 

 sticks out so much above my historical proclivities as to spoil their 

 programme to the extent of talking about the Moody System of 

 Creamery Management, instead of the other matter. 



The persons, that is to say farmers or dairymen here, whose at- 

 tention I would especially like are those who, when ready to harvest 

 their potato crop, dig up and cart away the whole field, potatoes, 

 potato rows, the earth they grow in, the vines, roots and everything, 

 take them to market, and require their customer to pick out his po- 

 tatoes from the soil, leaving it to be carted back home again. Also 

 those who take their corn shocks complete to the mill, that is, corn, 

 corn husks, fodder and all and require the miller to pick out the corn, 

 so that the fodder may be hauled back home again and a second 

 trip made to get the meal and the corn husks. Then the man who 

 expects to have eggs for sale and hauls his hens to market and leaves 

 them while they lay their eggs, then goes for them to bring them 

 home again, should pay attention. Also there may be a man here 

 who instead of bringing back the soil that he took away with him 

 and in which his potatoes grew, leaves this fertile material and tries 

 to grow his ne?t crop of potatoes in the unfertilized earth that was 

 under the soil, 



