The Correspondence College Of Agriculture

Author : Edward H. Farrington
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ISBN 13 : 9781332320646
Total Pages : 496 pages
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Download or read book The Correspondence College of Agriculture written by Edward H. Farrington and published by . This book was released on 2015-08-05 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Correspondence College of Agriculture: Dairying, Part I, Vol. 1: Development of the Dairy The Babcock test furnished a means of detecting the losses of butter fat in skim milk, and thus showed the need of perfecting cream separators until such losses were reduced to a minimum. Previous to the invention of the Babcock test, skim milk contained at least three-tenths percent fat, (0.3%) but this loss has now been reduced to less than one-tenth percent, (0.1%) thus making a saving of two-tenths percent, fat, (0.2%) due to the common use of this test. By these means creamery buttermakers have learned the necessity of controling the conditions that give a uniformly efficient skimming of milk by centrifugal separators. This saving of two-tenths percent fat (0.2%) over the losses of former years is five percent (5.0%) of the fat in average whole milk, and it represents a saving of $50,000 for every $1,000,000 worth of butter manufactured from milk testing 4.0 percent fat. 4. After the value of these two machines - the separator and the milk tester - was thoroughly understood, the dairy industry began to grow rapidly along three lines. 1. The improvement of dairy manufacturing processes; 2. The study of economical milk production; 3. The marketing of dairy products. 5. The study of these questions was first taken up by European farmers who understood the benefits to be derived from co-operation; and in about 1880, farmer's co-operative associations began to be organized for the purpose of carrying on co-operative feeding experiments, factory inspection, and the sale of dairy products in the best markets. Such co-operation has not been extensively successful among dairymen in the United States, but our dairy development has been helped by state dairymen's associations, farmer's institutes, state and county fairs, the farm and daily press, long and short courses in agricultural colleges, and experiment station bulletins. A - Dairying Compared With Other Lines of Farming. 6. The statement is often made at farmer's institutes and similar gatherings that a change from grain farming to dairying has lifted the mortgage from many a farm. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.