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Show VALUE OF CREAM SEPARATOR Expert of Missouri Agricultural College Col-lege Says 25 Per Cent More Cream Secured From Milk. "The farmer who uses a cream separator sep-arator obtains as much milk from four cows as is obtained from five cows where cream is raised in a pan," says C. H. Eckles of the Missouri College of Agriculture. The separator method gets 25 per cent more cream from the milk and this will pay for a separator In a year in a dairy herd of ten or more cows. As the cream is separated while fresh and sweet, ripening can be controlled and butter of much better grade can be secured than if the cream is raised by gravity. The use of a separator lightens the work for the housewife. The machine is kept in a small room adjoining the barn and only the separator parts are brought from the house. These, instead of numerous nu-merous pans and crocks, are returned to the kitchen for washing after the fresh skim milk has been fed to the calves and pigs. A well-made separator will last for years, in spite of the fact that it is put Into service twice a day. The separat tor should run from four to six years without repairs, if reasonable care is used. |