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The Readers' Service will advise you 

 about up to date Dairy Appliances 



THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 



September, 1907 



MILK CANS ROB 

 YOU 



Look through a microscope at milk set to 

 cream in pans or cans and you'll see how ihey 

 rob you. You'll see the caseine — the cheese 

 part— forming- a spidery web all through the 

 milk. You'll see Lhis web giowing thicker 

 and thicker until it forms solid curd. 

 How can you expect all the cream to 

 rise through that? It can't This caseine 





m »■ 



web catches a third to half the cream. 



You stand thnt loss just as long as you use 



pans or cans for they haven't enough skimming 



force to take out all the cream. But, just the 



minute you commence using Sharpies Dairy 



lul mlar Cream Separator, yon slop that loss. 



Sharpies Dairy Tubular Cream Separators 



j have 10.(100 times more skimming force than 



[pans or cans, and twice as much as any other 



(separator. They get all the cream— get it 



'quick— get it free from dirt and in the best 



condition for making Gilt 1-dge Butter. Caseine 



don't bother the Tubular. Th e Tubular is 



positively certain to greatly increase your 



dairy profits, so write at once for catalog 1-232 



and our valuable free book, "Business Dairy- 



, ins-" 



The Sharpies Sepa.ra.tor Co. 



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Chicago, 111. 



Manlove Automatic Gate 



Always in Order 



Operated by all vehicles or by 

 liaud. Attached to usual posts 

 at any driveway. Itaddstothe 

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UANLOVE GATE CO. 

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Home Grown Lilies 



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Have you tried them? 

 Lilies fresh from beds 

 with roots are better 

 than store bulbs with- 

 out roots. They are 

 more solid and have 

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 store bulbs may do 

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 (ready last August) 

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 hardy herbaceous pe- 

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 Charlotte, Vt. 



Home Testing of Milk 



TT IS quite practicable for the man with 

 -*- only one cow to test the quality cf 

 the milk — and he should most certainly do 

 so because a cow that is not yielding a reason- 

 ably rich quality can be disposed of. It dees 

 not pay to have poor milk. Testing for the 

 fat content is done by the Babcock method, 

 .and that is so simple that anyone can use it. 

 This " Babcock test " determines just how 

 much butter fat a certain cow's milk con- 

 tains, and this in turn will show how much 

 butter the cow will give in a week, because 

 it takes seven pounds of butter fat to make 

 about eight pounds of butter. 



Keeping a milk record and testing milk is 

 not a difficult nor tedious task, and a testing 

 outfit is not expensive. A one cow apparatus 

 costs as follows : 



A 4-bottle milk tester #5-o:> 



A pipette for measuring the mill; 20 



Test bottles, @ 15 c. each 60 



An acid measure 15 



Composite sample jar cc 



One gallon cf acid (commercial sulphuric). . . .60 



Total #6.60 



In addition to this, an adjustable dial hand 

 spring balance must be kept on hand to 



The outfit for testing milK by the BabcocK system: 

 1, Four bottle tester; 2, Pipette; 3, Testing bottles; 

 4, Graduaie; 5, Sulphuric acid; 7, Sample bottles 



weigh the milk night and morning as it comes 

 from the cow. 



To test the milk shake the sample thor- 

 oughly and with the pipette measure out 

 17.6 cc. of milk which is put in the test 

 bottle. Then add 17.5 cc. of sulphuric acid 

 having a specific gravity of 1.82 and mix. 



Several bottles are put in the machine, 

 being sure to balance them, i. e., as many on 

 one side as on the other, and are whirled 

 around at the rate of 100 revolutions a minute 

 or whatever is the speed indicated by the 

 manufacturer on the machine, for five 

 minutes. Then fill each bottle to the bottom 

 of the neck with hot water and again whirl 

 for four minutes. Now stop, fill the bottles 

 to the 8 per cent, mark with hot water and 

 again whirl for two minutes. Read quickly 

 before the bottles have a chance to cool. 

 In order to determine the fat in the sample, 

 on the neck of each bottle there are eleven 

 long marks, the space between each two 

 representing 1 per cent. These spaces are 

 again divided in five portions by shorter 

 marks, each of which represents 2 per cent. 



New York. H. H. Noble. 



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