268 
February 22. 
Hope Farm Notes 
T'MHi RURAL NEW-YORKER 
science can do is to cut out guesswork 
and give men a sure thing. That ir what 
the Babcock test did for both the man and 
the cow and this little machine in its idle 
corner whirled dairying into rank as one 
of the world’s greatest industries. 
A Better Thing. —This is the material 
A Dairy Name.— Some years ago a man 
from Denmark walked into The B. N.-Y. 
office. I think lie knew just one word of 
English, but in the shake-up of languages 
among our people we were able to test out side of what Dr. Babcock did. There is 
the words needed to converse with him. another which ranks higher and better. In 
He was a dairyman, and what do you sup- all the years since this test was first an- 
pose this one word in the universal lan- nounced no one has discovered a principle 
guage of intelligent cow men was? It was that is superior to the original. Naturally 
Babcock! Rightly so, for the Babcock new details have been worked out, but the 
milk test has done more to put dairying principle or invention remains the same, 
on a standard, scientific basis than any Without question Dr. Babcock could have 
other thing that has happened to it since patented his discovery, and had it been 
men first began to squeeze milk out of the handled as other great discoveries have 
cow. It has done more—for it made it been, the people would have paid tribute 
worth while for dairymen to try to pro- until today the plain and kindly professor 
duce butter fat instead of water, and this would have been classed with the world's 
has been the foundation of breed selection millionaires. Instead of this Dr. Babcock 
and the wonderful development of dairy gave his discovery freely to the world, and 
cattle. Taking the world through and gath- in doing this I think he did a greater thing 
ering the people who handle milk, I believe f° r humanity than when he perfected tlie 
the name of Babcock is a more familiar test. For this is a selfish and mercenary 
public word than Edison, Morse, Darwin &ge. Men fight and crowd along the way 
or Whitney, all of whom are said to have of life whenever they see a dollar which 
changed history and thought. The man they think they can pick up or pull away, 
who took me to that Wisconsin dairy room It does not matter so much whether they 
and pointed out the original Babcock milk ne ed the dollar or not—they fight for it 
tester was right in saying that this was largely from habit. For a time some of 
“the foundation of it all.” If this old ma- the teachers at our agricultural colleges 
chine could talk—what a story it could tell, were quite ready to sell their names and 
It has been practically around the world at their college reputations into the service 
dairy exhibitions. Even now, put to one schemes for promoting private interests, 
side as a relic or monument, it could go This is just the very thing they never 
into any creamery or dairy and give an ac- should do if they expect to take any genuine 
curate test. Imagine the first telephone or rank as real teachers of agriculture. For, 
telegraph instrument, the first mower or from the very nature of its origin and pur- 
reaper put out at actual work! It would P os< b agricultural education must gain the 
be a pathetic or laughable performance— confidence of the plain people. This it 
yet here stands the original Babcock milk noVer can do until these people feel that 
tester as capable of giving an accurate their would-be teachers are willing to make 
test as the most modern development of some evident sacrifice. This is what Dr. 
the machine! This illustrates the character- M. Babcock did for the people, and this 
istic principle in Dr. Babcock’s woYk—accu- s * de °t the man’s life is what should be 
racy and absolutely thorough testing before P u t before every professor and student at 
the plan was made public. an agricultural college. 
Looking Ahead— Dr. Babcock is a plain 
man without pretense or boasting. On 
a stormy day, with his overcoat pulled 
up above his throat and a plain cloth cap 
pulled down, you would not take him to 
. ... be a man who has been specially honored 
. I 8 ,. 16 . . ha ! b - v th0 Wisconsin Legislature and whose 
name is spoken wherever men milk a cow. 
Yet this plain unassuming way of life is 
the true glory of the man. Dr. Babcock 
told me something of the earlier history of 
his work in Wisconsin. In those days the 
college was crowded into a few small rooms. 
There were but few students, and the facili¬ 
ties for teaching were crude. The Babcock 
test was worked out under these pioneer 
conditions—in fact the test was a part of 
them. It was made simple and true be¬ 
cause the inventor was forced to work in 
cramped and unhandy quarters. I doubt if 
a test so complete and practical could have 
been worked out in some luxurious labora¬ 
tory where the worker was surrounded with 
every appliance of comfort. It cannot be 
denied that men must put something into 
their work from their surroundings. I have 
often felt that some of our teachers fail 
to reach their pupils because they live a 
life removed from humbler home conditions. 
The Babcock test was worked out slowly 
and not announced until thoroughly tried. 
It was a great temptation to rush it out on 
the strength of its work with one cow’s 
milk. Dr. Babcock would not let it be 
given out until it had been tried on many 
different samples of milk and its results 
checked off by chemical analysis. 
What a life this man must have lived. 
We talked of the growth of the college, of 
the vast power that is coming to agricul¬ 
tural education, and the effect it is to have 
upon the history of this country. Dr. 
Babcock looked out of the window across 
the snow-covered fields and said in his 
quiet, convincing way: “We have just be¬ 
gun to find out things—progress is just 
starting. The next 10 years will see the 
most marvellous development that this 
world has known.” Some men who go hack 
in life to the slow and conservative ways 
grow sour or bitter at the thought of the 
social whirlwind they see ahead of them. 
But this wise and kindlv man who has free¬ 
ly given a fortune to the world was bright 
and hopeful for the future. For he saw the 
thousands of bright-eyed farmers and their 
boys who thronged the college buildings 
and could look hack to the mere handful 
A Great Man. —The Saturday Evening 
Post began a story of Dr. S. M. Babcock 
about as follows: “In a little house on a 
little street of a little city lives a little 
man." It did not state as forcibly as it 
done one of the groat things of human 
industry and agricultural education. This 
simple discovery that the acid will dissolve 
the casein or cheesy matter and leave the 
fat and that this fat may be whirled out 
where it may be measured, put a great 
world-wide industry upon a scientific basis. 
It could not even be called a “discovery” 
perhaps, for of course all chemists knew 
what the acid would do, hut the application 
of these principles into a simple apparatus 
for testing unquestionably saved the dairy 
industry by giving farmers and breeders 
a chance to prove that they were produc¬ 
ing quality. In any system of selling milk 
by bulk or weight as the only qualification, 
where is there any incentive for an am¬ 
bitious or careful man to show that he is 
putting his brains into the milk can? An 
ounce of brain ought to be worth more 
than an ounce of horn off a man's heel, 
yet if there be no test to distinguish one 
from the other they must sell for the 
same. If that old machine standing idle 
in the dairy building could talk, what a 
story it could tell of awakened ambition, of 
improved thought, of honest pride in the 
fact that the careful man who milks the 
cow may demand payment for that uplift¬ 
ing thing which we call quality. 
Helped ran Cow.—And not only the 
man but the honest cow has been helped 
Dy Dr. Babcock’s discovery. For this old 
machine is chief of police with a multitude 
of deputies all over the world arresting 
the robber cows and sending them where 
they belong—to beef. For the scientists 
learned that each cow has the power to 
make milk of a certain, definite quality. 
The proportion of fat in it may vary a 
little with the season or condition of the 
cow, but it may be stated as a definite prin¬ 
ciple that each cow will make a certain, 
characteristic quality of milk. She will 
be likely to h fn <l that ea.llty aloes to bet ZVft Mt'tSS'tbSi.bV^S 
daughters with even greater precision than week. h. w. c. 
she will pass her color or shape of her head 
and horns. Of course I know that people 
will come saying that they can greatly in¬ 
crease the fat in a cow’s milk by certain 
Baking Apples. —I have just been read- 
the Hope Farm Man’s list of apples for 
baking, and see you have omitted inv 
crease the fat in a cow’s milk by certain favorite. I agree with all you say about 
feeding. The challenge to them is to take, the Fall Pippin, but its season is short, 
for example, a Holstein cow giving a large Sii?” j* A s ovcr ;iust tx 7 some Wageners. 
mess of thin milk and increase the fat by Bugar, anluwke ta’a gr^dt^dishl^^^pri'n’LVe 
any feeding they could think of! Could' a little extra sugar on the dish, and add 
they do this the whole thing would be set- f ^ ew dr °I )a °f water to prevent sugar 
for anyone e,n bee that it won,,, be SA?te «o"l ggi 
easio* and cheaper to produce extra fat by sugar to the juice. Set on top of the stove 
feeding grain rather than by the slow and let h*?! 1 until thi( ' k enough for jelly, 
expensive introduction of improved blood. jSy D R/ wTth'cream and'Tf Jewish 
Thus the Babcock test did more than find them extra fine have the cream whipped, 
the fat in the cow’s milk. It found the 5 at t ^’°. or thr °e and you will forget the 
fat-producing tendency in the cow’s blood anannlf a cthl was . ev , er Sll( 'h 
„ , an apple as the Fall Pippin. And where 
and gave the breeder his chance to avoid could you find a finer apple to eat out 
guesswork and build solidly upon settled ?, f hand, or one more beautiful to look at 
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