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Show BUTTEKFAT ALONE BRINGS RETURNS No Money in Production of Thin Cream. With so many fanners turning to milk production and so many dairy men to cream production It Is natural that creameries have been complaining about thin cream. The main fact t. remember is that it Is butterfat alone which determines the amount of re turns to farmers selling their cream to creameries. Many patrons have the Idea that a large amount of cream should return a correspondingly large pay check, .for getting ihat they are paid only for the butterfat in the cream, or the butter made from the fat. The skimming of a rich cream is a decided advantage to the patrons In more ways than one. Not only does It make a considerable saving in hauling but a greater amount of skimmilk Is retained for use on the farm. Taking a herd of ten cows with an average yield of 4,000 pounds of milk testing 3.5 per cent, the total milk production pro-duction will be 40,000 pounds and the total butterfat 1,400 pounds. Where the separator turned out a cream containing con-taining 20 per rent butterfat 7,000 pounds of cream, containing 1,400 pounds butterfat, would be sent to the dairy, leaving only 33,000 pounds of skimmilk. Where separation produces a cream containing 40 per cent butterfat butter-fat the same amount of butterfat, that Is 1.400 pounds, will be sent to the creamery. This leaves 36.500 pounds of skimmilk for use on the farm. This represents a saving In hauling of 3.500 pounds of milk and It gives an additional addi-tional supply of 3,500 pounds of skimmilk skim-milk for use on the farm. |