OBJECTIONS TO FARM SEPARATORS 



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cream, to pay them to ship b^' 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 s\'stem 



Fig. 53- — Simplex hand separator and the different parts ot bowl. 



of shipping cream long distances the quality of the butter made 

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

 milk. This is not due to an}- lault of the s\sten;, but to the poor 

 care which the separator and cream may recei\'e. The separator 

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



