134 THE FARM DAIRY. 



When thef separator is to be used it is best to 

 separate as soon after milking as is practicable. 

 If power of some kind is used the separator can 

 be put in operation soon after milking has com- 

 menced or at least commenced in time to have 

 continuous work for the separator and get 

 through separating as soon as practicable after 

 the milkiug is done. The milk as it comes from 

 the cow is in the best possible condition to 

 separate. 



Farm Skim-milk. — There is a great variety 

 in the quality of work done in the line of skim- 

 ming by farmers. I have tested farmers' skim- 

 milk from the gravity process that contained 

 1% per cent of fat. They had recovered less 

 than two-thirds of the fat in the milk. This 

 quality of work makes an enormous loss^ No 

 business except farming could stand such losses. 

 The dairyman of the future is not going to make 

 such wastes. It is only quite recently that we 

 have any practical method of knowing what 

 losses were being made and now we are stopping 

 these leaks rapidly. 



