518 IOWA DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 

 HAND SEPARATORS. 



A. 0. Elmdge. Elkader, Iowa. 



They have me down on the program for a little talk on the hand sepa- 

 rator, but as I am no orator you will have to put up with anything I have 

 to say. I am at a loss to suggest anything new on the subject. My posi- 

 tion is purely a selfish and mercenary one, as by the use of the hand sepa- 

 rator I can cover a larger territory and get the milk to the creamery at a 

 saving of from one-third to one-half, and thus saves the farmers what in 

 some localities amounts to a good deal. Then again the milk on the farm 

 warm and sweet is worth twice as much to the farmer for feed as it would 

 be if it had been hauled ten to fifteen miles to the creamery in the heat. 

 Then the cost of running the creamery is much less. Our opponents will 

 tell you that what we gain in this way will be lost in the quality of 

 product. Now where there may be a shade of truth in this in some locali- 

 ties, especially where the proper use of the separator is not yet under- 

 stood, in my case it is not so. We have factories operated on the whole 

 milk plan and on the hand separator plan, and the butter from the hand 

 separator factories sells for as much as that from the milk factories. I 

 will admit that the chances for loss are greater under the hand separator 

 oystem than under the whole milk, but in both cases we reject if it is not. 

 In conclusion, the hand separator must have some merits or the system 

 would not have grown to the proportion it has. 



President : Mr. M. O. Wheelock of Independence will make 

 the closing remarks. 



M. O. Wheelock : There is nothing left for me to say. Every- 

 thing has been thoroughly gone over and it all seems to be in favor of 

 the hand separator. 



President : Now we have about ten minutes left and you can 

 ask these gentlemen questions. 



Mr. Anderson : I would like to ask Mr. Puf ahl under which 

 •system his Luena creamery has been most successful. 



Pufahl : Of course I would naturally talk from a selfish stand- 

 point. While I was running the creamery at Luena it was run- 

 ning, good, both while I was handling whole milk and while I 

 was handling cream. But I will say that at the last the cost of 

 hauling the milk was so much that we could not pay the patrons 

 so much as when we bought cream. As I said, it was a critical 

 point in the welfare of the creamery. Part of them had sepa- 

 rators and part were bringing whole milk. 



