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Another matter that requires the attention of our factory and 

 creamei'y managers is the lack of attention given to the skim-milk. 

 There is a great outcry about the hand separator, and doubtless the 

 cause of a great many of our best men resorting to the hand machine 

 is that they have received bad skim-milk at the factory. We will 

 suppose, that a good supplier comes under the milk lift, his milk is 

 everything that can be desired. After him comes the careless man, 

 whose milk is turned ; it is, however accepted, and the good and the 

 bad are mixed together. The mixed milk passes through the 

 separators, the good supplier not only gets some of his own, but 

 also some of the bad stuff. He feeds this conglomeration to his 

 calves, and a large percentage of them die. He naturally begins to 

 grumble, and asks what is the use of his being careful with the milk. 

 He wishes to rear calves for stock, and not getting a sweet skim milk 

 from the factory, lie calls to his aid the hand separator, to save his stock. 

 Under such circumstances, he is not to blame, though, I believe, that 

 if the hand separator system were to become rife, the butter 

 industry would be ruined. 



The factory managers, however, have it in their power to curtail 

 the use of the hand separator, by paying more attention to the state in 

 which the skim milk is returned to the dairyman. Let more attention 

 be paid to the quality of the milk received. It is unjust that the good 

 milk supjilier should suffer for the negligence of the careless dairy- 

 man. The manager should see that all utensils in the factory, with 

 which the milk comes in contact, are washed and scalded every 

 day. Some means should be devised for taking the skim milk pipes to 

 pieces more easily. Pipes that have never been taken down for years 

 are bound to be injurious. Means also ought to be provided at every 

 factory whereby the farmer, if he desired, could have his skim milk 

 pasteurized. This I have seen done at one factory in Victoria, several 

 steam pipes are fitted up in the factory yard, the driver has nothing 

 to do but take his waggon up to this pipe, insert the steam hose into 

 the can, turn on the steam, and in less than a minute, he has scalded 

 milk, that will keep for some time if originally sweet. By these 

 means the manager would show the dairyman that he was interested 

 in his welfare, and I believe that in nearly every case the interest 

 would be reciprocated, leading to the general improvement of the 

 dairying industry. 



