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Show m facd LEAKY SEPARATOR IS WORST "ANIMAL" v Machines Stealing Butterfat Are Unprofitable. One of the most unprofitable "animals" "ani-mals" any dairyman cao have is a cream separator that is not working properly, says 11. R. Searles of St. Paul, Minn. Some dairymen who would not tolerate a single unprofitable unprofit-able cow have "leaky" separators that waste the profits of the entire herd. Just how prevalent faulty separators separa-tors are is Indicated by the fact that one out of every three machines used by new members of the Minnesota State-Wide Cow Testing association have been found to be "stealing" butterfat, but-terfat, as Mr. Searles puts it. Some of the skim milk samples senl in have tested as high as '6 hundredths of 1 per cent. This would mean that in every 10,000 pounds of milk. 16 pounds of fnt would be lost. The loss on some herds has been more than $1 a month, figuring fat at only 30 cents. A separator should hold the fat loss In skim milk down to from 1 to 2 hundredths of 1 per cent, Mr. Searles explains. Among the common reasons, why separators fail to skim efficiently are bowls out of balance, bent disks, worn spindle shafts or bearings, machines ma-chines not fastened to flooi or not level, worn-out tinware, machine turned too slowly or too unevenly. These and other causes may usually be remedied without much trouble. To guard against losses, separators should be checked by a skim milk test every month. When cream can be seen on the skim milk there is a loss of at least 10 hundredths of 1 per cent. The separator check which is provided members of the State-Wide Cow Testing association is proving of real value, according to Mr. Searles. The association gained about 400 new members during February. The total on March 1 was about 750 and growing grow-ing rapidly. |