OBJECTIONS TO FARM SEPARATORS 



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cream to pay them to ship by rail every day. Usually it does 

 not cost much more to ship a can full of cream than it does to 

 ship it half or three-quarters full. 



Objections to Farm Separators. Under the present system 



FIG. 53. Simplex hand separator and the different parts of bowl. 



of shipping cream long distances the quality of the butter made 

 from it is often of a lower grade than that made from good whole 

 milk. This is not due to any fault of the system, but to the poor 

 care which the separator and cream may receive. The separator 

 on the farm is sometimes kept in an unsuitable place, often in the 



