Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 289, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 December 1914 — Prefit in Butter. [ARTICLE]

Prefit in Butter.

There is a good profit in making butter at home, if you can make a high grade product and have a good market for it The creamery pays you only for an exact pound of butter fat With two or three pounds of milk thrown In for nothing. Churning the cream at home, you save the cost of churning which the creamery charges for; you gain about 16 per cent in weight of the butter; and you gain the buttermilk. These combined gains amount to about 25 per cent, or one pound in every four. In other words; you make about 25 cents on every dollar’s worth of butter; and you gain the buttermilk. These combined gains amount to about.2s per cent., or one pound in every four. In other words, you make about 25 cents on every dollar’s worth of butter, If you make as good butter as the creamery product By the use of the hand separator it is possible to make the highest grade of butter at home, provided the cream is properly handled and churned. By the use of the separator you are not only able to make a higher grade of butter and sell It for a higher price, but you will be able to extract more cream from the milk and hence make more butter. Also, the warm sweet skim milk will have a higher food value either for human use or for animal feeding. If you keep more than three or four cows, by all means buy a separator. It will soon pay for itself.