1906. 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
939 
A POUND OF BUTTER . 
Part III. 
Having made the cows as clean and 
comfortable as possible, and fed them a 
clean, well-balanced ration, the dairyman 
has done all he can to produce clean milk. 
Now comes the handling, and that is 
where the dirt usually gets in. 
Mr. Ackerman uses a sanitary milking 
pail which was new to me. For some 
years the dairy experts advised a pail with 
a covered top. There was a hole in this 
top protected by fine strainer wire, and 
the stream of milk was thrown directly 
upon this wire or at the side, so that it 
ran through. This was supposed to keep 
dust and dirt out of the pail, but now we 
are told that it is not sanitary, since the 
dust or dirt which gathers on the strainer 
top is washed through into the pail. The 
pail now used has a narrow top with what 
might be called a roof covering over at 
least half of it. As the milker sits, at his 
work this covered part of the top is next 
the cow, and it is practically impossible 
for dirt to fall from her into the pail. It 
needs a careful milker to throw the stream 
into the small opening without slopping 
over, but a careful man is needed anyway 
in the production of good milk. 
The milk is taken out of the stable as 
soon as possible after milking, and run 
through the separator, which is located in 
a dairy room removed from the stable. 
In watching the operations in this dairy 
1 realized more and more how impossible 
it is to tell just how such things are done 
on paper. Ink is dead matter at best, and 
while the printed page may give rules and 
general principles, it cannot carry the in¬ 
stinct and sensible judgment which make 
a vital part of what we call skill. One 
trouble with what we have called “educa¬ 
tion” in the past is this great reverence 
for books and printed facts and too small 
a place for human nature and practical 
labor. It seemed very easy for Mr. and 
Mrs. Ackerman to put cream into the 
churn and after going through various 
manipulations to turn out blocks of beau¬ 
tiful yellow butter, but I knew that with 
the same cream and the same tools, and 
with the most perfect study of dairy lit¬ 
erature, I should have turned out a prod¬ 
uct that would have disturbed every cus¬ 
tomer by its difference from the usual 
supply. It looks like an easy thing to put 
milk into a hand separator, get the ma¬ 
chine at full speed, and then let the cream 
and skim-milk run out, yet to keep this 
delicate machine up to its work requires 
brains as well as muscle. In order to 
learn whether the separator is skimming 
properly Dr. Santee tests the skim-milk 
for fat. Mr. Ackerman’s way is to put 
some of the skim-milk in a pan or can 
and see if cream rises. These are two 
accurate methods of asking the separator 
a question—one called scientific and the 
other practical. 
On the day of my visit there were 41 
pounds of cream in the barrel churn ready 
for churning. The separator is run twice 
a day, and as soon as the cream is 
skimmed it is put in deep pails and kept 
in a vat of cold water. The object is to 
keep it as close as possible to 58 or 00 
degrees. Three or four times a day it is 
well stirred so as to keep it thoroughly 
mixed and have it ripen evenly. In what 
is known as scientific dairying a chemical 
test would be made to tell just when the 
cream is ripe or sour enough for churn¬ 
ing. In some cases the cream is sterilized 
or heated up to a certain point, after 
which a “starter” is added. This may be 
a small quantity of buttermilk from a re¬ 
cent churning, or sour skim-milk or a. pre¬ 
pared ferment. The object in all such 
cases is to kill the acid germs in the cream 
by heating it, and then to start an even 
fermentation by adding the “starter.” Mrs. 
Ackerman does not use any “starter” or 
chemical test, for long experience has 
taught her to tell by tasting the cream just 
when it is sour enough to churn. With 
clean cream slowly ripened in cool water 
she can tell just when it is ripe. And so 
with our 41 pounds of cream in the churn 
we will leave Mr. Ackerman turning and 
see what comes next. h. w. c. 
THE FRENCH CANADIAN CATTLE. 
I read with interest A. A. F.’s letter 
asking for a small cow. A. A. F. would 
find the French Canadian cow answers 
his purposes. She is small. Her size 
varies according to the localities, and the 
feed and care she has been getting. Some 
are about the size of the Jerseys; some 
arc a good deal smaller. She is a milker 
and a butter producer; she requires less 
food than all the other breeds, except per¬ 
haps the Kerry cow. She is healthy, ro¬ 
bust, the best acclimatized cow of North 
America. She is a descendant of the 
Brittany cow imported to Canada in the 
middle of the seventeenth century. She 
is solid black or dark brown, with or 
without a yellow stripe along the back 
and around the muzzle. Inside of the 
ears, e-scutcheon and bag are cream col¬ 
ored. Some of the cows are of a nice 
solid fawn color. The preferred color is 
the dark brown with the yellow stripe. 
The following report will show what the 
French Canadian cow does as a milker 
and a butter producer. j. a. couture. 
Secretary F. C. Cattle Breeders. 
R. N.-Y.—The report gives the figures 
of a dairy contest between French Cana¬ 
dian, Short-horn. Ayrshire and Guernsey 
cattle. With some details omitted the fig¬ 
ures are as follows: 
Value Butter 
Year's Year’s Value and 
milk butter at skim Total 
yield, yield. 20 cts. milk, profit. 
French 
Canadian 8,340 442.04 $88.52 $90.Sl $56.24 
Shorthorn 5,335 258.33 51.66 59.32 21.82 
Ayrshire 8.784 308.72 79.74 92.21 49.51 
Guernsey 6,899 390.76 78.14 87.89 47.15 
These figures warrant Secretary Couture 
in claiming great virtues for these little 
cows. They would seem to fill the bill for 
those who want small cattle. 
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