20 HISTORY AND DEVELOPMENT 



the farm separator gradually revolutionized the buttermaking . 

 industry. 



The farm separator has made it possible for the farmer 

 to skim his milk on the farm efficiently and economically and to 

 ship or haul his cream, instead of his milk, to the creamery. 



The dairy farmer readily sees the many advantages and 

 great value of producing and selling cream, over selling milk. 

 The farm separator reduces the volume of his produce, that 

 must be taken care of on the farm and that must be shipped 

 or hauled to the market, to about one-sixth of the volume of 

 the original milk. It means fewer trips to town and less ton- 

 nage to the trip, a fact which, especially during the busy season 

 and in the face of the alarming shortage of farm labor consti- 

 tutes in itself a compelling argument for the farm separator. 

 It means better keeping quality and therefore less difficulty in 

 the care and handling of the product, because for the same 

 reason for which butter keeps better than cream, so does cream 

 keep better than milk. It leaves the farmer in possession of 

 fresh, warm and sweet skimmilk, which he needs for his 

 greatest success in raising his calves, as well as for hog and 

 chicken feeding. 



The farm separator is thus rapidly changing the system of 

 selling the product of the dairy cow from a whole-milk busi- 

 ness to a cream business and it is transforming the system of 

 creamery operation from the whole-milk creamery of the past 

 to the farm separator creamery of the present and future. 

 This change is taking place throughout the entire dairy 

 belt of the country. Even in the most highly developed dairy 

 sections, the natural home of the whole-milk creamery, the farm 

 separator creamery system is fast replacing the whole-milk 

 creamery system. 



But the country's growing demand for butter cannot all 

 be supplied from the limited area of the strict dairy sections 

 where the husbandry of the dairy cow is the principal farming 

 business. Much of the total butter supply of the country must 

 come from the great states and territories where grain-raising 

 is the dominant agricultural pursuit and where the need of the 

 dairy cow for the maintenance of the fertility of the soil is 



