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farm separator cream should not be equal to, if not better than, 

 that separated at a factory with power separators. 



Defects in Farm Separator Cream 



361. The defects found in gathered cream butter usually 

 arise from improper care of the cream before it is delivered to the 

 factory. These defects develop or are introduced into the cream 

 either by the method of caring for it at the farm or by the way 

 it is transported to the creamery. A perfectly clean, sweet and 

 satisfactory cream is produced on many farms and delivered in 

 good condition to either retailer, an ice-cream maker or a creamery. 

 There are, however, places where tainted and defective cream is 

 found and in some cases it is being mixed with cream of a better 

 grade. This is hardly fair to the producer of a first-grade cream 

 and in order to raise the standard of the entire product to a grade 

 equal to the best, the following suggestions are offered as a 

 guide to persons not familiar with proper methods of caring for 

 cream. 



Care of Farm Separator Cream 



1. The farm separator should be placed where there are no 

 bad odors. It must be thoroughly cleaned each time it is used; 

 the bowl and all tinware must be scalded and placed out of the 

 reach of dust. Under no circumstances should the separator bowl 

 be left until it has been used a second time before the cleaning is 

 done. The bowl-slime and rinsings left in the separator after 

 skimming begin to sour and decay in a very short time, and if the 

 cleaning is not done immediately after skimming, the taints of this 

 sour milk are hard to remove. 



2. Cool the cream to near 50 degrees F. immediately after 

 separating it. The ideal way of cooling separator cream is to 

 conduct it from the cream spout of the separator directly over a 

 water cooler. The cream must then be kept at a temperature 

 near 50 degrees F. by setting the cream cans in cold water. When 

 a cream cooler is not used the cream cans should not be over six 

 inches in diameter. They should be set in cold water and the 

 temperature reduced to 50 degrees F. or lower. This should be 



