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Summer Separating 
Wi the coming of hot weather 
additional care must be taken 
in the milk room to see that no contamination 
from sour milk shall occur. The least 
slopping of milk must be mopped up or 
foul odors will soon arise. The delicate 
flavor of “June butter” is easily injured 
and the milk must be carefully guarded 
from the time it is drawn until it leaves 
the maker’s care in the form of the best 
butter that he is capable of producing. 
Separating twice a day is now necessary 
and churnings must be made as frequently 
as the yield will allow and economy permit. 
Then, too, arrangements must be made 
for holding the cream at a low temperature. 
Altogether there are many changes from 
the winter practice. It is no easy task to 
wash the separator twice a day. Some of 
the testimonials seen in catalogues tell of 
cleaning the machine in two minutes, but 
that does not suffice even for the tank 
in the hands of those who have some idea 
of bacterial life and the necessity for steriliza- 
tion. With us the evening cleaning is the 
more irksome as it comes after the other 
chores are done and the call for rest and 
refreshment is strong. While it is unsafe 
to generally recommend any other practice 
than a thorough cleaning after each separa- 
tion, the careful operator may safely omit 
the evening cleaning. We do not even 
take the machine down, but after the evening 
run is over and the bowl has been thoroughly 
flushed out, the cream and skim milk cans 
are removed and empty cans placed under 
the spouts. We then run through a cleanser 
of not less than five gallons of water heated 
to 130 degrees in which two heaping tea- 
spoonfuls of sal soda have been dissolved. 
This removes the film of milk adhering to 
the bowl and inner cups. An equal amount 
of scalding water is then run through while 
the bowl is slowing down. Last of all 
enough fresh-drawn cold water is run 
through to thoroughly cool the machine. 
While getting up speed for the work of 
the following morning another tankful of 
boiling water is run through before filling 
the tank with milk. This leaves the bowl 
at a high enough temperature so that the 
first few gallons of milk are not chilled 
below the proper temperature for exhaustive 
separation—something which often happens 
on chill mornings and is’ the cause of a 
considerable loss of butterfat during the 
year. 
In this latitude the summer nights are 
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start rapidly and this “automatic washing” 
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it is out of the question after the morning 
run. The Jack of hot water in quantity 
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on the farm. 
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