THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
USE HAND SEPARATOR AT HOME 
The creamery to which I send my cream 
does not separate the milk. They only re¬ 
ceive the cream, and as a separator skims 
closer than a Cooley or any other creamery, 
besides taking less ice to run it, I use the 
separator for economy’s sake. It also leaves 
the milk in better shape to feed to young 
calves, pigs, etc., being warm. After 
separating I hang the cream into a barrel 
of ice water, the barrel being sunk in the 
ground in the wagon house. The creamery 
company sends a man around twice a week 
to gather the cream, and it keeps sweet with¬ 
out any trouble. k. h. b. 
Valley Falls, N. T. 
I have never sold the whole milk to the 
creamery and do not think I would care to 
do so. The advantages of separating the 
milk at home are, that we have the skim- 
milk, sweet, with the animal heat, which 
once lost can never be replaced—to feed to 
pigs, calves and poultry. I know this is 
much better than warming up cold skim- 
milk. The cream is gathered three times 
a week in the Summer and twice a week 
In the Winter, which does away with the ex¬ 
pense of putting up ice. Some cream will 
not be accepted, but I have no trouble that 
way, as I have good cool well water to 
set it in. I have had only one lot of sour 
cream left on my hands in four years, or 
since I have used a hand separator. I have 
no complaint to make. There may be more 
profit derived from milk than from the way 
I am doing, but as I am situated I know 
It is the best I can do. We have good roads, 
good churches, good schools, good society, 
good air, good water, and above all good 
health. We have men here farming who 
came here poor, and had to mortgage their 
farms, who are well off to-day, and we have 
men here who would not do well anywhere. 
Old age, death and the desire to make a 
change in business, places on the market some 
very desirable farms, at r. very reasonable 
price. As a rule, any man with good habits, 
MESSRS. GOBBLER AND PUSS. 
willing to work, and enthusiastic in his call¬ 
ing, will succeed as a farmer, in this town. 
Litchfield Co., Conn. Robert e. horne. 
I sent whole milk to station from the day 
it first started for 10 years without a fault 
(from 41 cows). At the latter date, or seven 
years ago, I bought and moved on to an¬ 
other 40-cow farm that had a hand separator 
with the other tools. I was located two 
miles from a separator station. Hence I 
started separating by horse power, and mak¬ 
ing butter for four years. At this date the 
St. Albans Creamery commenced Its cream¬ 
gathering system. I was well satisfied with 
results from butter-making, but for labor- 
saving I fell in with the cream selling, the 
remoteness being the main cause. Last Spring 
I bought another farm without stock. I have 
since put on this last farm 50 cows. To-day 
I am operating 150 cows on three farms, all 
with hand separators, and selling the cream 
from all of them. I prefer it because I have 
warm, sweet milk to feed; the whole of it 
and no more. The difference in quality alone 
between pure, clean, sweet skim-milk and the 
stuff we get from creamery I consider worth 
the creamery skim-milk, making my home 
skim-milk worth double the creamery milk for 
same quantity. All we lose is the butter¬ 
milk, which we lose here in either case. If 
more than one-half mile from station I would 
rather separate than draw milk. I consider 
it less work and a more satisfactory test, as 
it Is a very simple thing to churn a few 
pounds of cream at any time that tells you 
all about how they are using you better than 
any test ever invented. No drawbacks that I 
know. If within a few rods of creamery, I 
never would advise using home separator. 
East Fairfield, Vt. e. j. b. 
Our factory has no separator, but gathers 
the cream from the farmers, crediting them 
according to the butter fat test. The fac¬ 
tory employs a man, whose sole business is 
to collect cream. Even though the factory 
had a separator, I should still separate at 
home, for the following reasons: I raise 
many calves and pigs, and find the feeding 
value of the skim-milk too great to dispense 
with. I prefer to have the operation of sep¬ 
arating performed where I can see It in detail, 
as I then have a better knowledge of what 
each individual cow is doing. In other words, 
I keep in closer touch with my herd. 
Troy, N. Y. A. D. B. 
Our cream is sold and taken at the house 
to a creamery where only cream is handled 
for butter, and they do not use a separator. 
We are paid for per cent butter fat, and the 
principal drawback is the variation in per 
cent. When we first sold cream it tested 28 
per cent and has gradually gone down to 
less than 18 per cent, which I am unable 
to account for if everything is conducted 
honestly. a. r. a. 
Millbrook, Conn. 
TAKING SHEEP ON SHARES. 
Will you tell through The R. N.-Y. the cus¬ 
tomary terms on which sheep are taken? 
The first party simply furnishes the capi¬ 
tal to buy the sheep; the second party gets 
the flock and takes care of it. w. s. e. 
Cattaraugus, N. Y. 
I take it that the “first party” owns the 
farm on which the sheep are to be kept, 
and that their feed would be in part the 
property of the owner of land. I should 
consider that a fair plan would be to di¬ 
vide the proceeds arising from the increase 
or gain in value of the flock, on the same 
basis that the other farm crops are di¬ 
vided, except that the owner of the sheep 
should have enough from the share of the 
second party to make good the original in¬ 
vestment, not in dollars, as there might be 
a decline in values, although the flock 
were in just as good condition as when 
they were put on the farm. This would 
make the caretaker more careful and help 
to equalize things. The first party other¬ 
wise takes all the risk, and in company 
with a careless or dishonest man might 
suffer serious loss, both in the investment 
and the keeping. It would be wise to have 
a disinterested person appraise the flock 
when purchased, and again at the end of 
the year or the feeding period. There 
would be no more labor in feeding and 
caring for the sheep than in putting the 
product they eat on the market, in fact 
less, and if the tenant stayed on the farm 
he would have the manure to grow better 
crops. EDWARD VAN ALSTYNE. 
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