Show CIA LEAKY SEPARATOR IS WORST ANIMAL machines stealing butterfat are unprofitable one of the most unprofitable ant animals uny tiny dairyman can have Is a cream separator sepa that lint Is not working properly says 11 II R searles of st paul allne some dalry dairymen men who would not tolerate a single unprofitable cow have leaky separators that thai waste tile the profits of the entire herd just how prevalent faulty separators are Is indicated by the fact that one out of every three machines used by new members of the minnesota statewide state wide cow testing association have been found to be stealing butterfat as mr air searles puts it some of the skim milk samples sent in ID have tested as high na 10 hundredths of I 1 per cent tills this would mean tint tant in every pounds of milk 16 pounds n of r fat ant would he be lost the loss on some herds hns has been more than sl SI a month figuring fill at only SO 30 cents A should hold the lie fat cat loss in skim milk down to from 1 to 2 of I 1 per cent mr searles explains among the common coniti inn vv eliy hy fill to skim are bowle out of balance bent disks shafts or bearings rita nil idney not fastened to flonoi or nui not c level leel workout warn out machine turned tou too slowly or too unevenly these and other causes u be remedied without much trouble Iro uhle to guard against Itis lohnes ses separators should be che checked cled by a akini mill test every inon th when cream can bp be seen on the skim milk there Is a loss of at least 10 hundredths of I 1 per cent the separator cheek cheb which Is in provided members of the statewide state stale wide cow testing association Is proving if af real value according to mr searles the association gained about new members during february the total on march 1 awas was about and growing rapidly |