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Show Old Separators An Ohio dairyman writes that he can see no object In getting up so enriy to milk and deliver milk to the station ; that he is going to "get out the old separator" and try selling cream for a while. "I may not make any more selling cream, but I'll not have to get up quite so early," he declares. de-clares. Quite a few whole-milk dairymen are "getting out (he old separator." There's a disturbing thought. Not that they shouldn't separate the milk and sell cream, for that's a splendid tiling to do. The disturbing thought Is that some of these separators may go Into service badly In need of repairs and adjustments. A separator out of adjustment can cause a tremendous loss. A faulty set) arator leaves fat In the skim milk. The loss should not get above two hundredths of one per cent. The cow tester In Flnnpy Association, Kan., says two of twelve separators tested were losing over live-hundredths of one per cent. II. It. Searles reports a loss of 10-hundredtlis of one per cent a loss amounting to 10 pounds of fat In every 10,000 pounds of milk. Farm Journal. |