1901 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
479 
CO-OPERATIVE CREAMERY NOTES. 
A Successful Enterprise. 
The Union Center (Broome Co., N. Y.) 
Cooperative Creamery Company pro¬ 
duced during the month of April 3,345 
cans of milk, manufactured 14,242 
pounds of butter ,and sold the butter in 
Binghamton at the highest market quo¬ 
tation. The milk netted 76 cents a can 
for the butter sold, with the separated 
milk returned free. The New York Ex¬ 
change price for April was 74 cents a 
can. Two cents a can on 3,345 cans, 
$66.90; estimating 3,000 cans of sep¬ 
arated milk returned at 10 cents a can 
(the patrons of Union Center claim it is 
worth 17 cents to feed) gives $300, aggre¬ 
gating $366.90 received above Exchange 
price for April. On the same basis for 
June, with Exchange price 20 cents a 
can lower, and butter one-half cent a 
pound higher than for April, 3,345 cans 
at 22 cents, $735.90; 3,000 cans separated 
milk rettirned, at 10 cents, $300; 14,242 
pounds of butter one-half cent higher, 
$71.21, aggregates $1,107.11 above Ex¬ 
change price for one little creamery for 
one short month. Report for May re¬ 
ceived since writing the aJbove is as fol¬ 
lows: 4,480 cans produced; price of but¬ 
ter same as for April. Amount receiv¬ 
ed for butter and separated milk above 
Exchange price was for the month 
$955.52. If the increased quantity of 
milk for May over April should be main¬ 
tained for June its surplus would be in¬ 
creased $350; 30 per cent annual divi¬ 
dends are paid on stock. J. j. b. 
Campville, N. Y. 
In Sullivan County. 
Frank Beyer is still making a success 
of the management of the farmers’ co¬ 
operative creamery at Mongaup Valley, 
N. Y. Like all other lines of business, 
he loses a customer occasionally, but 
gets another to take his place. A city 
milkman seems to have worked the old 
game on some of the producers who 
patronized the cooperative creamery last 
year. He opened a creamery, contracted 
for milk, paid more or less promptly 
for a month or two, then let the bills 
run and finally disappeared between two 
days. The game has been worked so 
often it would seem that producers 
would be familiar enough with it to rec¬ 
ognize the ear marks at once, but they 
don’t. The farmers’ cooperative cream¬ 
ery drove the Exchange creamery at 
Stevensville out of business last year. 
It is now elo,sed. There seem to be no 
regrets on the part of farmers. Some of 
its old patrons are now carting to Lib¬ 
erty, where the farmers have a large co¬ 
operative ci’eamery, which they are leas¬ 
ing this year under favorable conditions. 
Easy Way to Handle Milk. 
Having no running water, nor ice, we 
use an old-fashioned refrigerator, which 
is simply a water-tight box, with double 
lid, given a coating of boiled oil and 
mineral paint, and allowed to harden 
thoroughly, renewing from time to time. 
In the center of the bottom, where the 
strainer was, we insert a plug. Two tin 
pails, without covers, are used for the 
milk, and set in enough water from a 
deep cold well nearly to submerge the 
pails. A little stick under the edge of 
the cover gives ventilation, until the 
animal heat has escaped. In about two 
hours we pull the plug, letting the water 
run out, and fill again—when the milk 
becomes thoroughly chilled- We place 
this box on the north side of the house, 
under the shade of a tree, where the sun 
never strikes it, and have kept milk 48 
hours perfectly sweet in the hottest 
weather, and raised about all the cream. 
We go through the same process after 
every milking. It works as well in Win¬ 
ter, the water never freezing until the 
thermometer reaches about zero. The 
beauty of this arrangement is that it is 
so easily cdeaned. Needless to say, the 
utmost cleanliness is observed about the 
milking, and plenty of boiling water 
used in scalding all the milk vessels, in¬ 
cluding the box itself, chas. p. leake. 
New Jersey. 
Questions About Oleo- 
The following note is found in a recent 
R. N.-Y.: 
At one time Holland led Europe as a 
dairy country. It began to encourage the 
oleo factory, while Denmark encouraged 
the cow. Of course, the Danes now lead 
the Dutch in dairying. 
As a matter of fact does not Denmark 
buy more oleo from the United States 
than any other nation, considering pop¬ 
ulation? Personally, I use nothing but 
best Jersey butter, made at home from 
my own cows; at the same time, out of 
curiosity bought some oleo butter sev¬ 
eral years ago, and could see nothing 
objectionable in its appearance or taste. 
Do you know that there is a firm opin¬ 
ion among the people, not farmers, that 
the creameries are the best customers 
foi oleo, and are the ones that fight oleo 
butter to retain a monopoly of a mixed 
article? The farmer and his butter is 
simply “not in it.’’ e. o. natiiur.st. 
Tennessee. 
iR. N.-Y.—In 1900 there were exported 
from this country 4,256,067 pounds of 
oleo and 146,739,681 pounds of the oleo 
oil. This oil was sent chiefiy to Eu¬ 
rope, where it is mixed with other fats 
and sold as oleo. The following table 
shows where most of this oleo oil went 
to; 
Pound.s. 
Holland .85,'976,846 
Germany .26,780,986 
Sweden and Norway.13.500,332 
Denmark . 8,628,948 
ITnited Kingdom . 7,265,764 
Belgium . 2,892,778 
• The largest exports of the manufac¬ 
tured oleo were as follows; 
British West Indies.1,466,638 
Giermany . 448,769 
United Kingdom . 364,712 
Cuba . 516,46;{ 
Porto Rico . 219,140 
The great bulk of the manufactured 
oleo goes to the West Indies and former 
Spanish islands. Our trade in this pro¬ 
duct with Europe or temperate countries 
13 insignificant, because such countries 
buy the oil and do the mixing at home. 
It will be seen that Holland buys nearly 
60 per cent of all the oil we export. It 
is quite notorious abroad that Holland, 
has become the great headquarters for 
oleo making and that Dutch butter is 
regarded with suspicion. It was former¬ 
ly classed with the best, but is now sel¬ 
dom quoted in the English market re¬ 
ports. Denmark imports about one- 
tenth as much of the oil as Holland 
does. The Danes do not buy a pound of 
the manufactured oleo. We believe that 
Denmark has a strict law prohibiting 
the manufacture or use of oleo colored 
to imitate butter. If made at an it must 
be of the natural color of the fats com¬ 
posing it. We have no objection to the 
use of oleo provided it is not sold as 
butter. We simply regard the yellow 
color as a counterfeit which enables un¬ 
scrupulous dealers to sell a mixture of 
cheap fats under the guise of the gen¬ 
uine product of cow’s milk. The opin¬ 
ion you refer to does not exist in this 
part of the country, and those who 
really investigate the creameries know 
how absurd such claims are. 
Painting the Inside of the Silo. 
What is the best thing to use to paint 
the inside of a silo? How would linseed 
oil (half boiled and half raw) do for it? 
Lakeville, N. Y. n. n. m. 
Opinion is very much divided. We 
have two silos, and they are not painted 
outside or inside. One of the silos has 
a portion of the staves painted with gas 
tar. We have not been able to see that 
the silage keeps any better where the 
staves are painted than it does where 
the staves are not painted. We have not 
found as yet any material which is bet¬ 
ter than common gas tar for the interior 
of the silo. This is better applied while 
hot, as it is then more penetrating than 
when cold. In heating gas tar the work 
should be done away from buildings, as 
the tar has a habit of boiling over the 
sides of the kettle, and the whole kettle 
of tar may take fire. Should this occur 
dump the kettle upside down upon the 
ground and the fire will be quickly ex¬ 
tinguished. Po'nting the inside of the 
silo is for two purposes; that the silage 
may be better preserved, and that the 
staves or walls of the silo may be pro¬ 
tected from decay. We cannot at the 
present time recommend any material 
better than gas tar. A preservative 
known as Carbolineum avenarius is said 
to possess wonderful powers as a wood 
preservative. We are making some tests 
of the material but we cannot state from 
experience its value. There are several 
mixtures on the market for painting 
boat bottoms. Some of these are of 
value for painting the inside of silos. 
We would not recommend linseed oil 
for the purpose. n. a. ctunton. 
Dried Blood for Calves. 
We have heard much about the value 
of live blood introduced to the calf 
through the parent. Now Prof. D. H. 
Otis tells in a recent bulletin from the 
Kansas Station of the value of dried 
blood as a tonic for young calves. He 
gives two cases where blood seems to 
have saved the lives of sick animals, and 
given them a good start. He says; 
“The Kansas Experiment Station has 
just purchased 20 young calves. Fre¬ 
quently these calves arrive at the Sta¬ 
tion badly affected with scours; a little 
dried blood always brings about a cure. 
Recently a test was made with five 
calves that happened to be scouring at 
the same time. With two of these dried 
blood was fed after reducing the regular 
feed of milk. With the other three the 
dried blood was fed without changing 
the supply of milk. In the former case 
the calves recovered from the scours af¬ 
ter two feeds; in the latter after three 
feeds. With the 70 young calves under 
experiment at the Kansas Station dur¬ 
ing the past year, there has not been a 
single case of scours that dried blood 
has failed to check. In feeding dried 
blood, a teaspoonful at a feed is a great 
plenty. This should be continued until 
the scours disappear. In case of a weak 
calf, the allowance may be gradually in¬ 
creased to a tablespoonful at a feed. To 
prevent the dried blood from settling to 
the bottom of the pail, where the calf 
will be unable to get it, it may be stirred 
in the milk while the calf is drinking, 
o; the milk and blood may be ted imme¬ 
diately after being thoroughly mixed.” 
Non-Cracking Butter Bowls. —In se¬ 
lecting a butter bowl care should be 
taken to get one as smooth as possible, 
as it is a sure indication of fine, close- 
grained wood if properly turned; a thor¬ 
ough sand-papering will improve all 
new bowls. Any new bowl will crack if 
v/ater is applied to the inside only, or 
left in it any length of time before wet¬ 
ting the outside, as the wet surface im¬ 
mediately commences to absorb water 
and swell, while the outside remaining 
dry does not expand or swell, conse¬ 
quently when the pressure from within 
overcomes the resistance from the dry 
outside it has to crack. The bowl should 
be immersed in cold water for a few sec¬ 
onds and then aired for a few minutes, 
so that the expansion will be gradual 
and from all of the surface at once. Re¬ 
peat the operation until the wood is 
thoroughly watersoaked; then it may be 
scalded in the usual way. Always wet 
the outside when in use. m. t. w. 
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