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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
April 25, 
THE BUTTER FAT IN WHEY. 
One of our readers asks us if there is 
cream or fat enough left in the whey from 
a cheese factory to warrant him in running 
it through a separator. He lias been told 
by a separator agent that there will be 
enough fat in 1,000 pounds of whey, on the 
average, to make four pounds of butter, 
and that such butter would be as good as 
any. He wants to know if it will pay him 
to put in a separator at the cost of $300 
to separate the whey. He is running about 
4,000 pounds of whey a day. 
The Opinion of a Cheese Maker. 
We have had no experience yet in the 
business but have looked into the matter 
as much as we could. We are informed 
that if a factory has only a small busi¬ 
ness it will not pay to separate the 
whey. About 3 y 2 to four pounds of 
butter can be made from 1,000 pounds 
of whey. This will sell readily to patrons 
a< market prices, but the extra fuel for 
steam to separate the whey hardly pays 
the maker to bother with such a 
small amount of whey. We expect to 
separate about 20,000 to 25,000 pounds 
of whey per day this season with two 
separators; have purchased a gasoline 
engine to run our separators, as we 
think that more economical than steam 
power. Some cheese makers who fur¬ 
nish all of the butter equipment are al¬ 
lowed half of the butter for their mak¬ 
ing. E. B. TUCKER AND SON. 
Oswego Co., N. Y. 
John Gould Sums It Up. 
The exact status of butter made from 
cream extracted from whey, has not 
been very accurately determined, nor its 
place assigned in market quotations. 
There seems very little authentic data 
to base figures upon, and assertion 
seems* at the present to be largely in 
the majority. The plan is being tried 
here and there, and with apparent suc¬ 
cess, and in other quarters it is said, 
“go slow.” In localities where Lim- 
burger cheese is made, where the fats 
in the milk are either being cooked in, 
or out of the curd, there seems to be, 
so far as the amount of butter made, a 
distinct gain in running the whey 
through a separator, and making “pres¬ 
ent use” butter. Where the common 
cheddar cheese of commerce is made 
the amount of butter secured is far less 
per 1,000 pounds of milk. In some re¬ 
ports it is asserted that four pounds of 
butter can be made from 1,000 pounds 
of whey, but in the Canadian dairy 
school last Winter, where the cheese 
was as fine as should be made, the 
amount of butter only reached about 
five pounds for 2,000 pounds of whey, 
which is only slightly above half the 
amount claimed by interested parties. 
The best report that we have seen was 
in a factory making full cream cheese, 
where the yield of butter was one 
pound to each 36 pounds of cheese 
made, the butter selling for an average 
of 23 cents for the season. In other 
words, the whey butter added about 
three-fifths of a cent per pound to the 
value of their cheese. Of course this 
was a very large factory, and small fac¬ 
tories could not show anywhere near as 
large results. Whether or not it would 
be profitable to put in a $300 separator 
is to be looked at something like this: 
If it is a factory where part skim 
cheese is being made, it would not be. 
If full cream, made as good as it should 
be to command the best prices, about 
~Vi pounds of butter is all that can be 
expected to the 1,000 pounds of whey. 
The standing of whey butter with con¬ 
sumers has yet to be established for 
quality, and reasonable keeping, and it 
will have to be sold as whey butter, and 
at a whey butter price, which is now un¬ 
settled, as no dealer in butter would 
dare put it into the market as creamery 
firsts, or Elgin; so that local trade 
would probably have to be relied upon 
first as a market. The separator would 
not be the only expense to incur. There 
must be special receptacles for the whey, 
aside from the usual tank ordinarily 
“discovered” other than by sight about 
the average factory, and the entire but¬ 
ter-making “kit,” storage, and the like 
with the necessary increased labor, all 
must be reckoned with Over and 
against this, the inquirer will find that 
his 4.000 pounds of whey will make 
something like 10 pounds of butter, of 
unknown value, possibly $2 worth at 
the outside If this pace can be kept 
up for eight months—250 days—the fac¬ 
tory will be enriched $500, out of which 
must be deducted packages and the cost 
of make. If a local trade will take this 
butter, this showing will be much en¬ 
hanced; but the general market will not, 
until educated, buy whey butter. If 
5.000 pounds of really good whey butter 
could be made in a season at a cheese 
factory, and sold at around 22 to 23 
cents a pound, this inquirer would notice 
that it won’d be a fairly profitable in¬ 
vestment, but he must consider many 
other matters of cost, public taste and 
the like, and make business calculations 
befitting a new venture. More than 
this, he must look upon himself as a 
sort of advance pioneer in this business, 
blazing his way along a new trail, that 
may possibly be his undoing; or suc¬ 
ceeding, establish a highway for others 
to follow, few of whom will ever ask 
about the path maker or why he “struck 
that trail.” JOHN GOULD. 
Ohio. 
At the Cornell Dairy School. 
For several years we have been mak¬ 
ing whey butter in our dairy school, 
and under our conditions this has been 
done at a profit. Ordinarily one may 
expect to get from two to four pounds 
of butter from 1,000 pounds of whey. 
If the fat is promptly separated from 
the whey, and the entire process of but¬ 
ter manufacture looked after with 
proper care, a good grade of butter will 
result. We find it most satisfactory 
so to adjust the cream screw of the 
separator bowl as to deliver a very 
heavy cream—testing about 60 per cent 
fat. This is done in a single separa¬ 
tion, and not by running the whey 
through the separator twice, as is the 
practice of some persons. The advan¬ 
tage of making such a heavy cream is 
that we thus exclude as much as pos¬ 
sible of the nitrogenous milk constitu¬ 
ents which are most affected by fer¬ 
mentations. Also, when we have a very 
heavy cream we may use a large pro¬ 
portion of starter. Our butter instruc¬ 
tor, Mr. Griffith, likes to use as high 
as 100 per cent starter with his heavy 
cream after the cream has been pas¬ 
teurized. Whey butter has a bad repu¬ 
tation, but this is due to faults in manu¬ 
facture. Generally the whey of one day 
has been held over for mixture with 
that of the following day, and some¬ 
times the cream of several days is all 
combined, and it is well on the road to 
putrefaction when finally churned. There 
is some reason for the delay in churn¬ 
ing because in most places there is 
hardly enough fat in the whey of a 
single day to mak' churning profitable. 
To overcome this difficulty, a company 
has recently been organized in northern 
New York, which collects whey daily 
from numerous cheese factories and 
brings it to a central point for churn¬ 
ing. This arrangement provides also 
for an expert cream ripener and butter 
maker to have charge of these two im¬ 
portant lines of work. r. a. pearson. 
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