Show cooling tank essential for producers of cream eiery E cry farmer who milks a few cows cow should bould have a cooling tank of sortie some kind it makes little differ erWe whether he patronizes patronize a creamery cheese factory sells milk or keeps it for his bis own use a cooling tank la is tiec necessary essary why bof not capitalize the grent great storehouse of cold which lies in the ground this can be done by simply passing passin 9 the water designed for live stock first through a tank which will serve its ia a refrigerator for all products which need cooling well or spring water in most of the dairy states has a temperature pera ture varying from 55 to 65 degrees fahrenheit writes A L haecker baecher in the illinois farmer this Is about as cold as the average domestic refrigerator friger ator by utilizing this cold weter water to chill down the milk cream or other products we are getting refrigeration at the lowest possible cost millions of dollars are lost annually to the cow keepers of this country purely on account of the neglect of milk and cream while it Is held at the farm butter and cheese would be greatly improved it if every patron used a cooling tank As a matter of convenience ven veni lence ence it Is worth while for every farmer to be thus equipped for it Is necessary to have a place to keep the milk and cream and where a refrigerator friger ator can be put into uge me the housewife will find it very efficient and convenient A cooling tank Is needed in both winter and summer in winter winte r to prevent freezing and to retain the cream or milk at a uniform and favorable temperature while certainty certainly in summer it to Is needed to prevent extreme souring and the development of undesirable flavors cold Is a wonderful preservative we are told that the prehistoric mammoth has been preserved in the lees ices of the polar region for years when dairy products or perishable foods folds are kept at a low temperature decomposition Is retarded and with dairy dalr products this means much in the way of better quality and price A can of cream kept in a good cooling tank Is worth a dollar more than the same can kept outside I 1 and exposed io to the heat of average ummer summer weather the producer is more interested in this dollar than anyone else he may not feel that he be Is losing the dollar simply because he gets the same game price for his product but this Is only a temporary condl condition the industry Is losing the dollar and he Is the most important and biggest part of the industry As a matter of satisfaction it should be worth while to turn out a good product when it Is nearly as easy to do so the grading of cream and paying a differential for quality Is rapidly coming into general use in a little valle the cream producers will either have to get cooling tanks or suffer a big loss due to producing second grade cream the cooling tank Is sound sensible economical and demanded by decent and progressive farming methods and we should all be tor for anything that has so much merit |